fat

Adjective
  1. Having an (over)abundance of flesh (synset 300989218)
    "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
    also:
    • endomorphic, pyknic - having a squat and fleshy build
    • 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
    tells us about: body weight - the weight of a person's body
    similar to:
  2. Having a relatively large diameter (synset 302420020)
    "a fat rope"
    similar to: 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
  3. Containing or composed of fat (synset 300995188)
    "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
    similar to:
    same as: fatty
  4. Lucrative (synset 301877317)
    "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
    domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    similar to: profitable - yielding material gain or profit
    same as: juicy
  5. Marked by great fruitfulness (synset 301085028)
    "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
    similar to: fruitful - productive or conducive to producing in abundance
    same as: fertile, productive, rich
Noun
  1. A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) (synset 114888511)
    "pizza has too much fat"
    is a 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)
    subtypes:
    • 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
    has: acylglycerol, glyceride - an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils
    substance holonym: triglyceride - glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body
    substance meronym: adipose cell, fat cell - cells composed of fat
  2. A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy;
    It also cushions and insulates vital organs (synset 105276464)
    "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
    is a type of: animal tissue - the tissue in the bodies of animals
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: adipose tissue, fatty tissue
  3. Excess bodily weight (synset 105006566)
    "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"
    is a type of: bodily property - an attribute of the body
    subtypes:
    same as: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness
Verb
  1. Make fat or plump (synset 201197471)
    "We will plump out that poor starving child"
    entail: feed, give - give food to
    is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
    same as: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out

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