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English adjective: fat | |||
| 1. | fat having an (over)abundance of flesh | ||
| Samples | He hadn't remembered how fat she was. | ||
| Similar | abdominous, blubbery, buxom, chubby, corpulent, double-chinned, dumpy, embonpoint, fattish, fleshy, gross, heavy, jowly, loose-jowled, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, porcine, portly, potbellied, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stout, tubby, weighty, zaftig, zoftig | ||
| See also | endomorphic, pyknic, rounded, thick | ||
| Attribute | body weight | ||
| Antonyms | lean, thin | ||
| 2. | fat having a relatively large diameter | ||
| Samples | A fat rope. | ||
| Similar | thick | ||
| Antonyms | thin | ||
| 3. | fat containing or composed of fat | ||
| Samples | Fatty food. Fat tissue. | ||
| Synonyms | fatty | ||
| Similar | adipose, buttery, greasy, oily, oleaginous, sebaceous, suety, superfatted | ||
| Antonyms | fat-free, fatless, nonfat | ||
| 4. | fat lucrative | ||
| Samples | A juicy contract. A nice fat job. | ||
| Synonyms | juicy | ||
| Similar | profitable | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | unprofitable | ||
| 5. | fat marked by great fruitfulness | ||
| Samples | Fertile farmland. A fat land. A productive vineyard. Rich soil. | ||
| Synonyms | fertile, productive, rich | ||
| Similar | fruitful | ||
| Antonyms | unfruitful | ||
English noun: fat | |||
| 1. | fat (substance) a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) | ||
| Samples | Pizza has too much fat. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | lipid, lipide, lipoid | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | animal fat, cocoa butter, edible fat, leaf fat, leaf lard, medulla, myelin, myeline, polyunsaturated fat | ||
| Part holonym | acylglycerol, glyceride | ||
| Substance holonym | triglyceride | ||
| Substance meronym | adipose cell, fat cell | ||
| 2. | fat (body) a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs | ||
| Samples | Fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold. | ||
| Synonyms | adipose tissue, fatty tissue | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | animal tissue | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | atheroma, belly, cellulite, flab, love handle, mons, mons pubis, mons veneris, paunch, puppy fat, spare tire | ||
| 3. | fat (attribute) excess bodily weight | ||
| Samples | She disliked fatness in herself as well as in others. | ||
| Synonyms | avoirdupois, blubber, fatness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bodily property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abdominousness, adiposeness, adiposity, corpulency, fattiness, fleshiness, greasiness, obesity, oiliness, oleaginousness, paunchiness, steatopygia | ||
| Antonyms | leanness, spareness, thinness | ||
English verb: fat | |||
| 1. | fat (consumption) make fat or plump | ||
| Samples | We will plump out that poor starving child. | ||
| Synonyms | fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Entail | feed, give | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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