FAT (fatted, fatter, fattest, fatting)

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Irregular inflected forms: fatted    , fatter    , fattest    , fatting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fat mean? 

• FAT (noun)
  The noun FAT has 3 senses:

1. a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)

2. a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs

3. excess bodily weight

  Familiarity information: FAT used as a noun is uncommon.

• FAT (adjective)
  The adjective FAT has 5 senses:

1. having an (over)abundance of flesh

2. having a relatively large diameter

3. containing or composed of fat

4. lucrative

5. marked by great fruitfulness

  Familiarity information: FAT used as an adjective is common.

• FAT (verb)
  The verb FAT has 1 sense:

1. make fat or plump

  Familiarity information: FAT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

pizza has too much fat

Hypernyms ("fat" is a kind 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))

Meronyms (parts of "fat"):

acylglycerol; glyceride (an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils)

Meronyms (substance of "fat"):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fat"):

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)

Holonyms ("fat" is a substance of...):

adipose cell; fat cell (cells composed of fat)

Derivation:

fat (containing or composed of fat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

adipose tissue; fat; fatty tissue

Context example:

fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold

Hypernyms ("fat" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fat"):

mons; mons pubis; mons veneris (a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women)

love handle; spare tire (excess fat around the waistline)

belly; paunch (a protruding abdomen)

puppy fat (fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescence)

cellulite (lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc.)

atheroma (a fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow)

flab (loose or flaccid body fat)

Derivation:

fat (make fat or plump)

fat; fatty (containing or composed of fat)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Excess bodily weight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness

Context example:

she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others

Hypernyms ("fat" is a kind of...):

bodily property (an attribute of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fat"):

abdominousness; paunchiness (the bodily property of a protruding belly)

greasiness; oiliness; oleaginousness (consisting of or covered with oil)

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)

steatopygia (an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks)

adiposeness; adiposity; fattiness (having the property of containing fat)

Derivation:

fat (make fat or plump)

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

• FAT (adjective)

Comparative: fatter   
Superlative: fattest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an (over)abundance of flesh

Context example:

he hadn't remembered how fat she was

Similar:

abdominous; paunchy; potbellied (having a large belly)

blubbery (swollen with fat)

chubby; embonpoint; plump (sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure)

buxom; zaftig; zoftig ((of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous)

corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty (excessively fat)

double-chinned; jowly; loose-jowled (having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw)

dumpy; podgy; pudgy; roly-poly; tubby (short and plump)

fattish (somewhat fat)

fleshy; heavy; overweight (usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it)

gross; porcine (repellently fat)

portly; stout (euphemisms for 'fat')

Also:

endomorphic; pyknic (having a squat and fleshy build)

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)

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

Attribute:

body weight (the weight of a person's body)

Antonym:

thin (lacking excess flesh)

Derivation:

fat; fatness (excess bodily weight)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a relatively large diameter

Context example:

a fat rope

Similar:

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Containing or composed of fat

Synonyms:

fat; fatty

Context example:

fat tissue

Similar:

adipose (composed of animal fat)

buttery (resembling or containing or spread with butter)

greasy; oily; oleaginous; sebaceous (containing an unusual amount of grease or oil)

suety (like or full of suet)

superfatted ((of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat)

Derivation:

fat (a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs)

fat (a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Lucrative

Synonyms:

fat; juicy

Context example:

a nice fat job

Similar:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Marked by great fruitfulness

Synonyms:

fat; fertile; productive; rich

Context example:

rich soil

Similar:

fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)

• FAT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fat    ... he / she / it fats   
Past simple: fatted   
Past participle: fatted   
-ing form: fatting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make fat or plump

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out

Context example:

We will plump out that poor starving child

Hypernyms (to "fat" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

"Fat" entails doing...:

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

fat (excess bodily weight)

fat (a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs)

 Context examples 

“When everything is eaten up one has some peace,” said she to herself, and well filled and fat she did not return home till night.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

'Now,' I say to Bidarshik, 'will the white soldier men come and take you away to the land under the sun, where you will eat much and grow fat.'

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It arrived upon Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson’s fire.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this study, mice that were fed a diet high in fat and cholesterol developed hair whitening, hair loss and skin lesions.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And there was no fat about him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A rare disorder in which there are defects in the small tubes that carry bile (fluid that helps digest fat) out of the liver.

(Alagille syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

A substance made or used when the body breaks down food, drugs or chemicals, or its own tissue (for example, fat or muscle tissue).

(Metabolite, NCI Dictionary)

It also acts as a lipotropic agent and prevents excess fat buildup in the liver.

(Methionine, NCI Thesaurus)

He was very fat, but had apparently at some time been much fatter, so that the skin hung about his face in loose pouches, like the cheeks of a blood-hound.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“If you’re eating chocolate, make sure to watch the calorie content, the fat content and the sugar content,” Su says.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)