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A dangerous word, fat. It means large, or overweight, or — dare we say it? — even obese. If your brother has gotten fat, you might want to be tactful and call him "large-boned" instead.

Fat can be applied not just to people or animals, but to any inanimate object that is notably big. Dictionaries, for example (remember the old-fashioned printed kind?), are inevitably described as "fat tomes," or an engagement ring can be fat if the rock is big enough. In its literal sense, fat simply means flesh, a form of body tissue, and in this sense it doesn't imply anything excessive. Just be careful using it to describe certain people.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: fat

1	n adj v	a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) containing or composed of fat make fat or plump
2	adj	having a relatively large diameter
3	adj	marked by great fruitfulness

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: fat

n a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)

“pizza has too much fat”

Types:: show 15 types...; hide 15 types...; edible fat
oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue; animal fat
any fat obtained from animals; cocoa butter
a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans; leaf fat, leaf lard
fat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard; medulla, myelin, myeline
a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers; polyunsaturated fat
a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol; cracklings
the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered; lard
soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog; marbling
the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat; shortening
fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods; suet
hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep; drippings
fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried; oil, vegetable oil
any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants; bone fat
fatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greases; butterfat
the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made

Type of:: lipid, lipide, lipoid
an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates)

n a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs

Synonyms:: adipose tissue, fatty tissue

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; flab
loose or flaccid body fat; atheroma
a fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow; cellulite
lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc.; puppy fat
fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescence; mons, mons pubis, mons veneris
a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women; belly, paunch
a protruding abdomen; love handle, spare tire
excess fat around the waistline; bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly, tummy
slang for a paunch

Type of:: animal tissue
the tissue in the bodies of animals

n excess bodily weight

Synonyms:: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness

Antonyms:: leanness, spareness, thinness
the property of having little body fat

Types:: show 8 types...; hide 8 types...; adiposeness, adiposity, fattiness
having the property of containing fat; abdominousness, paunchiness
the bodily property of a protruding belly; greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness
consisting of or covered with oil; corpulency, fleshiness, obesity
more than average fatness; steatopygia
an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks; adiposis, corpulence, overweight, stoutness
the property of excessive fatness; exogenous obesity
obesity caused by overeating; embonpoint, plumpness, roundness
the bodily property of being well rounded

Type of:: bodily property
an attribute of the body

adj containing or composed of fat

“fat tissue”

Synonyms:: fatty

: adipose
composed of animal fat; buttery
resembling or containing or spread with butter; greasy, oily, oleaginous, sebaceous
containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; suety
like or full of suet; superfatted
(of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat

Antonyms:: fat-free, fatless, nonfat
without fat or fat solids; calorie-free, light, lite, low-cal
having relatively few calories; skim, skimmed
used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; show more antonyms...

adj having an (over)abundance of flesh

“he hadn't remembered how fat she was”

Synonyms: endomorphic, pyknic
having a squat and fleshy build; abdominous, paunchy, potbellied
having a large belly; blubbery
swollen with fat; chubby, embonpoint, plump
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; buxom, zaftig, zoftig
(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous; corpulent, obese, rotund, weighty
excessively fat; double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled
having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw; dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby
short and plump; fattish
somewhat fat; fleshy, heavy, overweight
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it; gross, porcine
repellently fat; portly, stout
euphemisms for `fat'; rounded
curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; thick
not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions

Antonyms:: lean, thin
lacking excess flesh; ectomorphic
having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs; anorectic, anorexic
suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin; bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed
characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver; gangling, gangly, lanky
tall and thin; lank, spindly
long and lean; rawboned
having a lean and bony physique; reedlike, reedy
resembling a reed in being upright and slender; twiggy, twiglike
thin as a twig; scarecrowish
resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; boney, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
being very thin; shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; slender, slight, slim, svelte
being of delicate or slender build; slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted
having a small waist; spare, trim
thin and fit; spindle-legged, spindle-shanked
having long slender legs; stringy, wiry
lean and sinewy; wisplike, wispy
thin and weak; thin
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; show more antonyms...

v make fat or plump

Synonyms:: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out

Type of:: alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

adj having a relatively large diameter

“a fat rope”

Synonyms: thick
not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions

adj marked by great fruitfulness

“a fat land”

Synonyms:: fertile, productive, rich

: fruitful
productive or conducive to producing in abundance

adj lucrative

“a nice fat job”

Synonyms:: juicy

: profitable
yielding material gain or profit

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