English Explanatory Dictionary

fat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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. 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. 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.
noun
  1. A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
  2. Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
  3. 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. That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
  5. An erection.
  6. A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
  7. The best or richest productions; the best part.
  8. Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
  9. A fat person.
  10. A beef cattle fattened for sale.
verb
  1. To make fat; to fatten.
  2. To become fat; to fatten.
  3. To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
noun
  1. A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
  2. A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
noun
  1. A fop or dandy.
noun
  1. Acronym of file allocation table.
  2. Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.
  3. FAT16 or FAT16B.
  4. FAT12.
  5. FAT12 or FAT16, without drawing a distinction between the two.
  6. Any of a series of genes and their equivalent proteins that are associated with cell proliferation.
  7. Initialism of full agricultural tenancy.

Pronunciation

/ˈfæt/ en-us-fat.ogg Fat.ogg /ˈfɛt/ făt /fæt/

Word forms

fat fatter fattest fats fatting fatted

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

chubby chunky corpulent lardy obese overweight plump porky rotund tubby well-fed bountiful prosperous thick fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person blubber fat flab speck weight adipose tissue lard suet grease fatty vat

Antonyms

Of sense: lean skinny slender slim thin

Related words

lipic lipid obese overweight paunch fat choy

Derived words

big fat big-fat big, fat, hairy deal big fat zero cut it fat deathfat fat acceptance fat activist fat and happy fat arrow fat-arse fat as a barrel fat as a fool fat as a house fat as a pig fat-ass fatassed fat-assed fat ball fat beard fatbeard fat bike fatbike fat body fatbutt fat-buttocked fat cat fat catshark fat cell fat city fat client fat comma fat day fat dormouse fat embolism fatface fat fantasy fat farm fat finger fat-finger fat-fingered fatfluencer fat fuck fatfuck fathead fatheaded fat hen fat innkeeper fat-kidneyed fatkini fat knot fat lady fat lava fatling fat link fat lip fat logic fat lot fat lot of good fat lute

Translations

Afrikaans: vet Albanian: dhjamë Southern Altai: јуу Southern Altai: май Western Apache: biʼikʼah Arabic: دُهْن Arabic: شَحْم Armenian: ճարպ Aromanian: grãsimi Aromanian: grãsime Assamese: শকত Azerbaijani: yağ Azerbaijani: piy Belarusian: тлушч Belarusian: жыр Bengali: চর্বি Bulgarian: лой Bulgarian: тлъстина́ Bulgarian: мазнина́ Burmese: အဆီ Buryat: тоһон Carpathian Rusyn: тук Catalan: greix Cebuano: tambok Chinese Cantonese: 脂肪 Chinese: 膩瓤 /腻瓤 Chinese Mandarin: 脂肪 Chuvash: ҫу Chuvash: ҫӑв Ngazidja Comorian: mafura Czech: tuk Danish: fedt Dutch: vet Dutch: vetlaag Egyptian: D:d-A-Aa2 Erzya: куя Esperanto: graso Estonian: rasv Even: имсэ Evenki: имуксэ Faroese: fiti Finnish: rasva Finnish: silava Finnish: läski French: graisse Galician: gordura Galician: graxa Georgian: ცხიმი Georgian: ქონი German: Fett German: Schmër Greek: λίπος Ancient Greek: στέαρ Ancient Greek: πιμελή Paraguayan Guarani: kyra
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