English > fat: 9 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Having an (over)abundance of flesh. |
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| Example | "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
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| Attribute of | body weight | The weight of a person's body |
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| Narrower | abdominous, paunchy, potbellied | Having a large belly |
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| blubbery | Swollen with fat |
| buxom, zaftig, zoftig | (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous |
| chubby, embonpoint, plump | sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure |
| corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund | excessively fat |
| double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled | Having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw |
| dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly | 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' |
| See also | endomorphic, pyknic | Having a squat and fleshy build / build |
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| rounded | curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged |
| thick | not thin |
| Opposite | thin, lean | lacking excess flesh |
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| Spanish | carnoso |
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| Catalan | carnós |
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| Nouns | fatness, fat | excess bodily weight |
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English > fat: 9 senses > adjective 3| Meaning | Containing or composed of fat / fat. |
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| Examples | - "fatty food"
- "fat tissue"
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| Synonym | fatty |
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| Narrower | adipose | Composed of animal fat |
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| buttery | resembling or containing or spread with butter |
| greasy, oily, sebaceous, oleaginous | Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil |
| suety | like or full of suet |
| superfatted | (of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat / fat |
| Opposite | nonfat, fat-free, fatless | Without fat / fat or fat / fat solids |
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| Spanish | gordo, grasienta, graso, grasosa, grasoso, obeso |
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| Catalan | gras |
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| Nouns | fat | a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy |
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| fat | a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) |
English > fat: 9 senses > noun 3, attribute| Meaning | excess bodily weight. |
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| Example | "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" |
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| Synonyms | fatness, blubber, avoirdupois |
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| Narrower | abdominousness, paunchiness | The bodily property of a protruding belly |
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| adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness | Having the property of containing fat |
| fleshiness, obesity, corpulency | More than average fatness |
| greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness | Consisting of or covered with oil |
| steatopygia | An extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks |
| Broader | bodily property | An attribute of the body |
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| Opposite | leanness, thinness, spareness | The property of having little body fat |
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| Spanish | adiposidad, corpulencia, gordura, grasa |
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| Adjectives | fat | having an (over)abundance of flesh |
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| Verbs | fat | make fat or plump |
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