leaning
leaning is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acclivity
- affect
- aid
- and
- applicability
- aptitude
- aptness
- ascent
- bad
- bank
- beach
- bend
- bent
- bevel
- bias
- bid
- bigotry
- box
- breach
- calculated
- cant
- carry
- cast
- conatus
- conduce
- conducive
- conduciveness
- contribute
- crookedness
- cry
- curve
- custom
- declivity
- descent
- devexity
- dip
- direction
- dispose
- distortion
- downhill
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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