🧑‍🦱 Overweight 🧈 A greasy substance 🍔 Oily or rich 💰 Large amount 📏 Thick or wide ⚖️ Excess weight 🍽️ To make plump 🌱 Very fertile

fat

56 1.0

Thick and wide in shape

adjective
/fæt/

: grueso

The tires were big and fat, more like what you'd find on a dune buggy.

And it'll be one big fat, messy, ugly paragraph.

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Examples

The old sofa was comfortable but quite fat, making it a challenge to fit in the small living room.
The upstairs room looked marvelous with the lights, fat cables, and camera set up.

Academic text (2009)
And now it looks like a giant fat football.

Rob Moore
Big power supply, fan motor and big fat switch.
Black on black, with some big fat tires on the back.

Lords of Dogtown (2005)
We'll get us a big, fat tuna.

Hard to Kill (1990)
And in the middle of the table is this big, huge fat alligator.
Big, fat accounting ledgers.

So Undercover (2012)
He picked up a fat book from the shelf, which was filled with numerous fascinating stories.
She carried a fat bag full of groceries, struggling a bit as she walked to her car.

Synonyms

plumpish

vsfat

1 3.7

A little fat in a soft, round way

is about general large diameter rather than soft rounded fullness

fattish

vsfat

Informal

1 5.3

A little heavy in the body, slightly overweight

is about object width, not human body weight

bellied

vsfat

5.6

Having a rounded shape that sticks out from the middle of the body

is wider overall rather than showing a single bulge

Antonyms

thin

422 1.0

Not thick from side to side, for example a line or a slice

slim

91 1.0

Thin and with little body fat

Idioms

fat chance

Informal

12 8.1

A way to say something is very unlikely to happen

to chew the fat

Informal

3 7.9

Talk in a friendly, relaxed way for a long time

the fat of the land

2 6.8

The best food and goods a place gives

Compounds

fat cat

Offensive

30 6.3

A rich, powerful person who seems greedy and has too much power

fat-free

28 1.0

A food or drink that contains no fat

fat face

9 5.1

A round, chubby face with full cheeks

low-fat diet

9 2.5

An eating plan that has little fat and more foods like bread or meat

fat content

9 2.6

The amount of fat in a food or drink

fat cell

Specialized

8 2.8

A small part of the body that stores fat for energy

animal fat

7 2.6

The oily part of animals' bodies used for cooking and making products

low-fat milk

5 1.0

Milk that has less fat than whole milk

fat lip

4 4.1

A swollen lip that happens after a hit or injury

Fat Tuesday

4 4.3

A day of feasting and parties before Lent, also called Mardi Gras

fat farm

Offensive

3 8.4

An informal name for a place where people stay to lose weight by diet and exercise

fat body

2 2.8

A person or animal with extra weight and a round shape

polyunsaturated fat

Specialized

2 3.5

A fat from plant oils and fish that is better for the heart

fat-soluble

Specialized

2 4.2

Able to dissolve in fat or oil rather than water

fat finger

Jargon

1 7.9

A mistake you make by pressing the wrong key or button

deep fat fryer

1 3.4

An electric kitchen machine that cooks food by putting it completely in hot oil

fat-soluble vitamin

Specialized

1 2.9

A vitamin that mixes with fat and stays in body fat

fat embolism

Specialized

1 7.5

When fat enters the blood and blocks a blood vessel after a broken bone

big fat bonus

Informal

1 3.3

A large extra payment from your job for good work

bone fat

Specialized

1 8.4

Fat taken from animal bones used to make cheap candles, soap, and grease

fat metabolism

Specialized

1 3.7

The way the body breaks down fat to make energy

big fat prize

Informal

1 3.1

A very large and impressive award given to the winner

fat day

Informal

1 8.8

A day when you eat a lot and feel too full

puppy fat

1 3.4

A soft layer of fat on a child that children lose as they grow

leaf fat

1 9.1

A layer of fat around a pig's kidneys used to make lard

edible fat

1 2.4

Oils and other foods from animals or plants that people eat and use for cooking

mule fat

Specialized

1 9.9

A Californian shrub with thin leafy shoots that deer eat

cohune fat

Specialized

9.9

A thick fat from the nuts of a palm used for cooking and making soap

fat hen

8.1

A common wild plant with leaves you can eat and cook like spinach

fat logic

Slang

9.9

A way of thinking that makes unfair actions seem acceptable to help oneself

lazy fat-ass

Offensive

9.9

A rude name for someone seen as lazy and very overweight

wool fat

Specialized

6.9

A yellow, greasy material from sheep's wool used in creams and skin products

How Thick

fat

56 1.0

thick

625 1.0

chunky

21 3.5

thin

422 1.0

Surface Forms

fat positive

fatter comparative

fattest superlative

Etymology

Fat also came to mean 'thick' or 'wide' by image: something full and round looks 'fat', which is why we call a large rope or cable 'fat' when it has a big width.