fat
Other forms: fats; fatter; fattest; fatted; fatting; fatly
Fat is a form of body tissue on animals. It’s a squishy layer that stores energy and protects organs. Fat is also an adjective meaning chubby or thick, as in a fat piglet or a fat wallet full of money.
Some foods, like butter or avocado, have fat. Deep fried chocolate bars have a lot of fat. Humans, and other animals, need to consume some fat to maintain optimal health and absorb certain vitamins. The word fat can be applied not just to people, animals, or deep-fried food, but to any inanimate object that is notably big. Your brother likes reading comics, while you prefer fat books like War and Peace and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
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a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)types:edible fatoily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissueanimal fatany fat obtained from animalscocoa buttera yellow-white fat from cocoa beansmedulla, myelin, myelinea white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fiberspolyunsaturated fata class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterolcracklingsthe crisp residue left after lard has been renderedlardsoft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hogmarblingthe intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meatshorteningfat such as butter or lard used in baked goodssuethard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheepdrippingsfat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or friedbone fatfatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greasesbutterfatthe fatty substance of milk from which butter is made
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a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organssynonyms: adipose tissue, fatty tissuetypes:flabloose or flaccid body fatatheromaa fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flowcellulitelumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc.puppy fatfat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescencetype of:animal tissuethe tissue in the bodies of animals
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excess bodily weightsynonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fatnesstypes:steatopygiaan extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocksexogenous obesityobesity caused by overeatingtype of:bodily propertyan attribute of the body
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containing or composed of fat“fat tissue”synonyms: fattyadiposecomposed of animal fatbutteryresembling or containing or spread with buttersuetylike or full of suetsuperfatted(of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat
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having an (over)abundance of fleshsynonyms:blubberyswollen with fatfattishsomewhat fatfleshy, heavy, overweightusually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry itroundedcurving and somewhat round in shape rather than jaggedthicknot thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensionsantonyms:thinlacking excess fleshectomorphichaving a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbsbony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedvery thin especially from disease or hunger or coldrawbonedhaving a lean and bony physiquescarecrowishresembling a scarecrow in being thin and raggedshriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizenedlean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illnessthinof relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
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make fat or plump
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having a relatively large diameter“a fat rope”synonyms:thicknot 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
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marked by great fruitfulness“a fat land”synonyms: fertile, productive, richfruitfulproductive or conducive to producing in abundance
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lucrative
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Vocabulary lists containing fat
If you need some food for thought, review this list of terms related to nutrition and diet. Whether you're interested in learning about carbohydrates, vitamins, or digestion, this list is full of words to whet your appetite.
If you need some food for thought, review this list of terms related to nutrition and diet. Whether you're interested in learning about carbohydrates, vitamins, or digestion, this list is full of words to whet your appetite.
If you need some food for thought, review this list of terms related to nutrition and diet. Whether you're interested in learning about carbohydrates, vitamins, or digestion, this list is full of words to whet your appetite.