Difference between Lean and Insufficient

What is the difference between Lean and Insufficient?

Lean as an adjective is slim; not fleshy. while Insufficient as an adjective is not sufficient.

Lean

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: slim; not fleshy. having little fat. Having little extra or little to spare. Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hang outwards. To press against.

Example sentence: People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Insufficient

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not sufficient.

Example sentence: In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

We hope you now know whether to use Lean or Insufficient in your sentence.

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