Lank
[læŋk]
Definition
(adj.) long and lean .
(adj.) long and thin and often limp; 'grown lank with fasting'; 'lank mousy hair' .
Checker: Norris--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
(superl.) Languid; drooping.
(v. i. & t.) To become lank; to make lank.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Lean, thin, meagre, attenuated, slim, slender, starveling, skinny, scraggy, gaunt, emaciated.
Typist: Rowland
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lean, loose, slender, slim, long, lax, rawboned
ANT:Plump, short, full, rounded, crisp, curled
Checked by Kenneth
Definition
adj. languid or drooping: soft or loose: thin: shrunken: straight and flat.—v.i. (Shak.) to become lank.—adv. Lank′ly.—n. Lank′ness.—adj. Lank′y lank and tall.
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Examples
- He had been constrained to depute Mr Venus to keep their dusty friend, Boffin, under inspection, while he himself turned lank and lean at the Bower. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Their hungry eyes and their lank forms continually suggested one glaring, unsentimental fact--they wanted what they term in California a square meal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The second man was a long, dried-up creature, with lank hair and sallow cheeks. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The sight of his lank black figure and the lonesome air of that nook in the dark were favourable to the state of my mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow. Plato. The Republic.
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