noun
- A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides. )
- usage: "pizza has too much fat"
- A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs.
- usage: "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
- synonyms: adipose tissue, fatty tissue
- Excess bodily weight.
- usage: "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"
- synonyms: fatness, blubber, avoirdupois
verb
- Make fat or plump.
- usage: "We will plump out that poor starving child"
adjective
- Having an (over)abundance of flesh.
- usage: "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
- Having a relatively large diameter.
- usage: "a fat rope"
- Containing or composed of fat.
- usage: "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
- synonyms: fatty
- Lucrative.
- usage: "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
- synonyms: juicy
- Marked by great fruitfulness.
- usage: "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
- synonyms: fertile, productive, rich
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