fat

Meaning

Adj

1. Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
2. Thick; large.
3. Bulbous; rotund.
4. Bountiful.
5. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
6. (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
7. Fertile; productive.
8. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
9. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
10. (dated) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
11. Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
12. Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
13. (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
14. Carrying additional data or functionality.
15. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of phat.

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
2. (uncountable, usually) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
3. (countable, usually) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
4. (uncountable, usually) That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
5. (slang, uncountable, usually) An erection.
6. (uncountable, usually) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
7. (uncountable, usually) The best or richest productions; the best part.
8. (dated, uncountable, usually) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
9. (derogatory, informal, uncountable, usually) A fat person.
10. (uncountable, usually) A beef cattle fattened for sale.

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To make fat; to fatten.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To become fat; to fatten.
3. (transitive) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
2. (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

Synonyms

grease

corpulent

plump

oil

thick

obese

stout

chubby

fatty

greasy

big

lard

large

fleshy

rich

🤑

overweight

tallow

oily

round

bold

portly

suet

butter

🧈

rotund

adipose

strong

blubber

bulky

fatness

marrow

sturdy

adipose tissue

lipid

gross

heavy

obesity

fertile

animal fat

tubby

puffy

become fat

buxom

fatten

sudden death

short

stocky

robust

fill out

productive

fatten up

Translations

grasso

graisse

gras

gros

Fett

gordo

fett

grasa

dick

vet

λίπος

gordura

gordo

dik

grosso

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fæt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fat

Inherited from Old English: fǣtt

Inherited from Old English: fǣt

In summary

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

Sentences

" You're in luck , you two ," the fat Arab said .