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Meaning of fat in English
Pronunciation
/fæt/
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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
abdominous
paunchy
potbellied
blubbery
buxom
chubby
embonpoint
plump
zaftig
zoftig
compact
heavyset
stocky
thick
thickset
corpulent
obese
weighty
rotund
double-chinned
jowly
loose-jowled
dumpy
podgy
pudgy
tubby
fattish
fleshy
heavy
overweight
gross
porcine
portly
stout
Antonyms
thin
lean
2.
containing or composed of fat
Examples
« fatty food »
« fat tissue »
Synonyms
adipose
buttery
greasy
oily
sebaceous
oleaginous
suety
superfatted
Antonyms
nonfat
fat-free
fatless