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| 1. | [ adjective ] having much flesh (especially fat) | |
| Examples: | "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
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| Related terms: | thin portly buxom fleshy compact gross double-chinned fattish dumpy abdominous corpulent blubber thick rounded endomorphic body_weight | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (chemistry,food) a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) | |
| Examples: | "pizza has too much fat" |
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| Related terms: | lipid edible_fat cocoa_butter leaf_fat animal_fat polyunsaturated_fat myelin glyceride fat_cell triglyceride | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] having a relatively large diameter | |
| Examples: | "a fat rope" |
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| Related terms: | thick | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (zoology) a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs | |
| Synonyms: | fatty_tissue adipose_tissue | |
| Examples: | "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" |
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| Related terms: | animal_tissue belly puppy_fat cellulite flab spare-tire atheroma love_handle atheroma mons fatten | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (agriculture) marked by great fruitfulness | |
| Synonyms: | rich productive fertile | |
| Examples: | "fertile farmland" "a fat land" "a productive vineyard" "rich soil" |
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| Related terms: | fruitful | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] a chubby body | |
| Synonyms: | rounded | |
| Examples: | "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" |
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| Related terms: | endomorphic | |
| 7. | [ verb ] make fat or plump | |
| Synonyms: | fatten plump fill_out plump_out fatten_out fatten_up flesh_out | |
| Examples: | "We will plump out that poor starving child" |
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| Related terms: | change feed | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] (informal) lucrative | |
| Synonyms: | juicy | |
| Examples: | "a juicy contract" "a nice fat job" |
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| Related terms: | colloquialism profitable | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] containing or composed of fat | |
| Synonyms: | fatty | |
| Examples: | "fatty food" "fat tissue" |
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| Related terms: | nonfat greasy suety superfatted buttery adipose | |
| 10. | [ noun ] excess bodily weight | |
| Synonyms: | avoirdupois blubber fatness | |
| Examples: | "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" |
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| Related terms: | leanness bodily_property greasiness fleshiness adiposity abdominousness fatten | |
| Similar spelling: |
Fath Fate fatwa fatty fatah faith Faeth fatwah fatiha fad fahd fado fade faddy |
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