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fat
 
Adjective fat has 6 senses
  1. fat - having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
    Antonyms:     thin, lean, anorexic, anorectic, bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed, fine-drawn, gangling, gangly, lanky, lank, spindly, rawboned, reedy, reedlike, twiggy, twiglike, scarecrowish, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened, slender, slight, slim, slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted, spare, trim, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, stringy, wiry, wisplike, wispy
  2. fat - having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
    Antonym:     thin (indirect, via thick)
  3. fatty, fat - containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
  4. fat, juicy - lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
    Antonym: unprofitable (indirect, via profitable)
  5. fat, fertile, productive, rich - marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
    Antonym: unfruitful (indirect, via fruitful)
  6. fat, rounded - a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks"
    Antonyms: mesomorphic, muscular (indirect, via ectomorphic, endomorphic)
    Antonym: ectomorphic (indirect, via endomorphic, mesomorphic)
Noun fat has 3 senses
  1. fat - a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"
    --1 is a kind of     lipid, lipide, lipoid
    --1 is a substance of fat cell, adipose cell
    --1 has parts: glyceride, acylglycerol
    --1 has substance: triglyceride
    --1 has particulars:
     edible fat; animal fat; cocoa butter; leaf fat, leaf lard; myelin, myeline, medulla; polyunsaturated fat
  2. adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue - a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
    --2 is a kind of animal tissue
    --2 has particulars:
     flab; atheroma; cellulite; puppy fat; mons, mons veneris, mons pubis; belly, paunch; spare tire, love handle
    Derived form: verb fat1
  3. fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois - excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others"
    --3 is a kind of bodily property
    --3 has particulars:
     adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness; abdominousness, paunchiness; greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness; fleshiness, obesity
    Derived form: verb fat1
Verb fat has 1 sense
  1. fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
    --1 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived forms: noun fat2, noun fat3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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