fat
- adjective
- /fæt/
- After the holiday season, many people feel that they have become a bit too fat.
- too fat
- a fat man
- become fat
He's like a really big fat puppy with horns.
- He's like a really big fat puppy with horns.
- Well, some people don't like fat girls who don't like fat girls.
- Did he have a big fat fatty balls?
- He's just he's just he's fat, but he's it's stylish.
Examples
-
So you think I am getting fat.
-
I was a fat kid.
-
I was just, I was a short brown fat kid growing up at school.
-
Do you believe yourself to be fat when others say you are too thin?
Academic text (2011) -
There are fat pigs, there are fat cows.
-
He's a really nice young man, but very fat and overweight.
-
Holding a Levi jacket to her chest, a fat girl stepped into the light.
Fiction book (1990) -
He's a little fat man, and he's bizarre.
-
She's fat.
-
He was always the fat kid in class, and his friends loved him for his cheerful personality.
Synonyms
Having too much body fat that can cause health problems
A little fat and rounded in a healthy, attractive way
A person who is very fat with a large, heavy body
A person with a large belly that sticks out around the middle
Having extra fat around the waist
Having a large round belly
Having too much body fat
Being very overweight
A little heavy in the body, slightly overweight
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
An informal name for a place where people stay to lose weight by diet and exercise
An electric kitchen machine that cooks food by putting it completely in hot oil
- Specialized
When fat enters the blood and blocks a blood vessel after a broken bone
- Specialized
A yellow, greasy material from sheep's wool used in creams and skin products
How Fat
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fat as an adjective comes from the old idea of being 'fattened' or 'plump', so it describes a person or animal with a large amount of body flesh or fat.