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fat

adjective

1 a fat man walked in:

plump, stout, overweight, heavy, large, solid, chubby, portly, rotund, flabby, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, dumpy, meaty, broad in the beam, of ample proportions, Falstaffian;

buxom;

obese, morbidly obese, corpulent, bloated, gross, gargantuan, elephantine;

fleshy;

informal tubby, roly-poly, beefy, porky, blubbery, poddy, chunky, well padded, well covered, well upholstered;

British, informal podgy, fubsy, lard-arsed;

Scottish, literary sonsy;

rare pursy, abdominous.

▷antonyms thin, skinny.

2 fat bacon:

fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous;

formal pinguid, adipose, sebaceous.

▷antonyms lean.

3 those fat books you're always reading:

thick, big, chunky, substantial, extended, long.

▷antonyms thin.

4 informal a fat salary:

large, substantial, considerable, sizeable;

generous, handsome, ample, excellent, good, competitive.

▷antonyms small.

5 informal fat chance she had of influencing Guy:

very little, not much, minimal, hardly any.

▷antonyms good.

noun

1 whales insulate themselves with layers of fat:

fatty tissue, fat cells, blubber, adipose tissue.

2 he was tall and running to fat:

fatness, plumpness, stoutness, heaviness, chubbiness, tubbiness, portliness, rotundity, podginess, flabbiness, bulk, excessive weight;

obesity, corpulence, grossness;

paunch, pot belly, beer belly, beer gut;

informal flab, blubber, beef.

▷antonyms thinness.

3 fried bread in sizzling fat:

cooking oil, animal fat, vegetable fat, grease;

lard, suet, butter, margarine.

word links	fat
lipoid relating to fat lipo- related prefix, as in liposuction, lipoprotein