↗️ Not upright ↗️ A tilt 🗳️ A preference

leaning

12 4.2

Not upright and slanting to one side

adjective
/ˈlinɪŋ/

: inclinado

INT. LEANING TOWER RESTAURANT, PARKING LOT - NIGHT NICKY and SHELLY walk across the parking lot and get into his two-tone red and white car. # NICKY #

And to, to have the, the piece about the leaning building in the middle was fascinating.

Examples

There, fix that leaning issue now.
The whole thing's leaning forward in the pot.
(LEANING ON JESUS PLAYING)

Wild Bill (1995)
(LEANING ON JESUS PLAYING)

Wild Bill (1995)
INT. LEANING TOWER, BACK DOOR - NIGHT NICKY and MARINO are seated at the back door watching GINGER screech out of the parking lot. # NICKY #

Fiction book (1995)
LEANING NAPKINS.

Copacabana (1947)
EXT. LEANING TOWER, BACK DOOR/REAR PARKING LOT - NIGHT: MARINO throws GINGER out the back door.

Fiction book (1995)
This is a city inundated with curses, but the wasteland of my prophecies stretches before me, and behind me is the Leaning Tower, and the dwarf giant clinging to his theory that "perversion is a miracle."

Fiction book (1994)
The old building was leaning dangerously to one side after the earthquake.
She noticed the leaning tower of books threatening to topple over.

Synonyms

lopsided

vsleaning

29 4.3

Uneven because one side is lower, smaller, or heavier

focuses on the simple slant rather than imbalance or weight

tilted

vsleaning

24 2.5

Leaning to one side and not straight, like a picture on a wall

refers broadly to the same departure from uprightness

askew

vsleaning

16 6.0

Not straight or level and turned to one side

describes the same off level position in neutral terms

sloping

vsleaning

15 3.1

A surface that is not flat or level and leans to one side

is the broader label for any such angled surface

slanted

vsleaning

11 3.9

Not straight or level and leaning to one side

describes the same angled departure in general terms

slanting

vsleaning

10 2.9

Tilting at an angle, not straight up or flat

covers that same angle without adding context or cause

inclined

vsleaning

6 3.9

Sloping so one end is higher than the other

is the simple, general description of that angled state

tipped

vsleaning

5 3.8

A thing that leans to one side and does not stand straight

is the general term for such a sloping position

slanty

vsleaning

2 4.4

Leaning to one side and not level

is the broader, neutral description of that tilted state

canted

vsleaning

1 8.1

Leaning to one side instead of being straight or level

expresses the same tilt without implying technical usage

skew

vsleaning

1 6.4

At an angle so it is not straight

is the general word for being off the true axis

atilt

vsleaning

Archaic

1 9.8

Leaning to one side and not straight

names the same tilted condition in plain terms

clinal

vsleaning

9.1

Sloping so a surface leans at an angle

refers generally to any surface that departs from level

Antonyms

upright

96 2.7

Standing straight up and not leaning

Idioms

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Informal

5.5

A person, plan, or thing that is shaky and likely to fail

Compounds

Leaning Tower

5 4.0

A round marble bell tower in Pisa that tilts because the ground under it is soft

Leaning Tower of Pisa

3 3.4

A tall bell tower in Pisa, Italy that is not straight and is famous

forward-leaning strategy

6.7

A plan that acts now to reach future goals and avoid problems

How Slanted

horizontal

79 2.8

tilted

24 2.5

slanted

11 3.9

leaning

12 4.2

upright

96 2.7

Surface Forms

leaning positive

Morphology

leaning = lean (transparent) = lean + ing

Used adjectivally as the present-participle form of 'lean' meaning 'slanting' or 'not upright'; the relation is direct and transparent.

Etymology

Leaning comes from an old English word meaning 'to tilt', and it shares the root with the verb lean. That's why we call a building or picture 'leaning' when it is not straight or upright.