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leaning

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of leaning

running in a slanting direction

  • the leaning tower of Pisa is a popular tourist attraction in Italy
Synonyms of leaning

cant, canted, diagonal, graded, inclined, listing, oblique, pitched, raked, slant, slanted, slantwise, sloped, sloping, tilted, tilting
Near Antonyms of leaning

horizontal, level

plumb, up-and-down, vertical

parallel, perpendicular

leaning

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of leaning

1 a prevailing or general movement or inclination

  • the news media are often accused of having liberal leanings
Synonyms of leaning

current, direction, drift, run, tendency, tide, trend, wind
Words Related to leaning

curve, downside, shift, swing, turn, turnabout, upside

custom, habit, propensity, tenor, way

countercurrent, countertrend

undercurrent, undertow

2 a habitual attraction to some activity or thing

  • despite what his athletic leanings might suggest, he was actually a very lazy kid
Synonyms of leaning

affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, genius, habitude, impulse, inclination, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn
Words Related to leaning

favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudice

endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent

addiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, taste

forte, speciality, specialty

convention, custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), routine, trick, way, wont

eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity
Near Antonyms of leaning

allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, distaste

detachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivity

apathy, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

Synonym Discussion of leaning

leaning, propensity, proclivity, penchant mean a strong instinct or liking for something. leaning suggests a liking or attraction not strong enough to be decisive or uncontrollable.
    • a student with artistic leanings
propensity implies a deeply ingrained and usually irresistible inclination.
    • a propensity to offer advice
proclivity suggests a strong natural proneness usually to something objectionable or evil.
    • a proclivity for violence
penchant implies a strongly marked taste in the person or an irresistible attraction in the object.
    • a penchant for taking risks

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