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1. Having an (over)abundance of flesh
   "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
    
2. Having a relatively large diameter
   "a fat rope"
    
3. Containing or composed of fat
   "fat tissue"
   - fatty
    
4. Lucrative
   "a nice fat job"
   - juicy
    
5. Marked by great fruitfulness
   "a fat land"
   - fertile, productive, rich

1. A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
   "pizza has too much fat"
    
2. A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
   - adipose tissue, fatty tissue
    
3. Excess bodily weight
   - fatness, blubber, avoirdupois

1. Make fat or plump
   - fatten, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up

Derived forms: fatting, fatter, fatted, fats, fattest

See also: abdominous, adipose, blubbery, body weight, buttery, buxom, chubby, corpulent, double-chinned, dumpy, embonpoint, endomorphic, fattish, fleshy, fruitful, greasy, gross, heavy, jowly, loose-jowled, obese, oily, oleaginous, overweight, paunchy, plump, plumpish, podgy [Brit], porcine, portly, potbellied, profitable, pudgy, pyknic, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, sebaceous, stearic, stout, suety, superfatted, thick, tubby, weighty, zaftig [N. Amer], zoftig [N. Amer]

Type of: alter, animal tissue, bodily property, change, lipid, lipide, lipoid, modify

Antonym: thin

Part of: adipose cell, fat cell

Encyclopedia: Fat