Meaning of fat in English

Verb
fat
Definitions
1. make fat or plump
Examples
- « We will plump out that poor starving child »
Classifying Adjective
fat
Definitions
1. having a relatively large diameter
Examples
- « a fat rope »
Synonyms
- thick
2. lucrative
Examples
- « a juicy contract »
- « a nice fat job »
Synonyms
- profitable
3. marked by great fruitfulness
Examples
- « fertile farmland »
- « a fat land »
- « a productive vineyard »
- « rich soil »
Synonyms
- fruitful
4. a chubby body
Examples
- « the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks »
Synonyms
- endomorphic
- pyknic
Noun
fat
Etymology
Old English fǣtt ‘well fed, plump’, also ‘fatty, oily’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist
Definitions
1. a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
Examples
- « pizza has too much fat »
2. a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy
Examples
- « adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs »
- « fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold »
3. excess bodily weight
Examples
- « she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others »
Antonyms
- leanness
- thinness
Qualitative Adjective
fat
Definitions
1. having much flesh (especially fat)
Examples
- « he hadn't remembered how fat she was »
Synonyms
Antonyms
- thin
- lean
2. containing or composed of fat
Examples
- « fatty food »
- « fat tissue »
Synonyms
Antonyms

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