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ADJECTIVE | 1 | fat | Having much flesh (especially fat) |
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2 | fat | Having a relatively large diameter | |
3 | fat, fatty | Containing or composed of fat | |
4 | fat, juicy | Lucrative | |
5 | fat, fertile, productive, rich | Marked by great fruitfulness | |
6 | fat, rounded | A chubby body | |
NOUN | 1 | fat | A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) |
2 | fat, adipose tissue, fatty tissue | A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy | |
3 | fat, fatness, blubber, avoirdupois | Excess bodily weight | |
VERB | 1 | fat, fatten, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up | Make fat or plump |
Sounds | fae't |
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Rhymes | acrobat, Arafat, aristocrat, and 60 more rhymes in aet at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Having much flesh (especially fat). |
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Examples | "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
Attribute of | body weight |
Similar | 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 |
See also | endomorphic, pyknic; rounded; thick |
Contrary | thin, lean |
Meaning | Having a relatively large diameter. |
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Examples | "a fat rope" |
Similar to | thick |
Meaning | Containing or composed of fat. |
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Examples | "fatty food"; "fat tissue" |
Synonyms | fatty |
Similar | adipose; buttery; greasy, oily, sebaceous, oleaginous; suety; superfatted |
Contrary | nonfat, fat-free, fatless |
Meaning | Lucrative. |
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Examples | "a nice fat job" |
Synonyms | juicy |
Similar to | profitable |
Usage | colloquialism |
Meaning | Marked by great fruitfulness. |
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Examples | "a fat land" |
Synonyms | fertile, productive, rich |
Similar to | fruitful |
Meaning | A chubby body. |
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Examples | "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" |
Synonyms | rounded |
Similar to | endomorphic, pyknic |
Meaning | A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides). |
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Examples | "pizza has too much fat" |
Parts | glyceride, acylglycerol |
Narrower | edible fat; animal fat; cocoa butter; leaf fat, leaf lard; myelin, myeline, medulla; polyunsaturated fat |
Broader | lipid, lipide, lipoid |
Substance of | fat cell, adipose cell |
Substances | triglyceride |
Adjectives | stearic |
Meaning | A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy. Adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs. |
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Examples | "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" |
Synonyms | adipose tissue, fatty tissue |
Narrower | flab; atheroma; cellulite; puppy fat; mons, mons veneris, mons pubis; belly, paunch; spare tire, love handle |
Broader | animal tissue |
Verbs | fat |
Meaning | Excess bodily weight. |
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Examples | "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" |
Synonyms | fatness, blubber, avoirdupois |
Narrower | adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness; abdominousness, paunchiness; greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness; fleshiness, obesity |
Broader | bodily property |
Contrary | leanness, thinness |
Verbs | fat |
Meaning | Make fat or plump. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | fatten, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up |
Entails | feed, give |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Nouns | fat; fat |