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Synonyms for leaning

Synonyms for leaning: tipped and proclivity. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective

The 2 synonyms for leaning

Interchangeable with leaning in this sense

Audited under leaning's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one leaning carries in that sense.

tippedadjective, in the sense "departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name leaning as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

proclivityproclivity is a noun in the sense "a natural inclination"

one of these comes from leaning's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal

The leaning tower of Pisa.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

tipped

Same sentence, swapped: The tipped tower of Pisa.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where leaning stands in the sentence above.

unstable
bent
unbalanced

Where leaning turns up in the game

leaning is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play leaning

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so leaning reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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leaning carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Treeline and widens alphabetically.

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