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🍔 Causing weight gain 🐄 For animal growth
fattening

fattening

1 3.2
Food that makes people or animals gain weight because it has many calories
  • adjective
  • /ˈfætənɪŋ/
translation icon : engordante
  • I mean, there's so many different things that we have that are fattening and they got to get off all of those things and just really, you know, eat much lighter.
  • less fattening
  • delicious but fattening
  • most fattening

So I think it's they're, they're pointed towards foods that are likely to be fattening for them.

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Examples

  • The dessert was rich and fattening, filled with cream and sugar.

  • It just weighed too much or cost too much or was too fattening in my case, right?

  • I just finished my shopping for all that I need for the big and fattening turkey dinner.

    Blog text (8)

  • Well, what nice, fattening thing did you tell Arlene to make tonight?

    Valley of the Dolls (1967)

  • And just so all of those oily, fattening, amazing things don't ruin your little tiny Big Breakfast station.

    Vogue

  • They think that beer is more fattening than wine, which is patently untrue.

  • LISTEN, IT'S NOT FATTENING.

    New in Town (2009)

  • THOSE ARE TOTALLY FATTENING!

    Valley Girl (1983)

  • Many fast food meals are high in calories, making them quite fattening.

  • She decided to avoid fattening snacks while trying to lose weight.

Synonyms

fatty
vsfattening
54 2.3

Containing a lot of oil, usually in food

causes weight gain by being high in calories or fat
too fatty
vsfattening
1 2.1

Food that has more fat than is healthy

causes weight gain rather than only being considered unhealthy
calorific
vsfattening
6.1

High in calories and so giving a lot of energy when eaten

causes weight gain rather than only being high in energy

How Fattening

fattening
1 3.2
low-cal
  • Informal
5 3.1

Surface Forms

fattening positive

Morphology

fattening = fatten (transparent) = fat + en + ing

The adjectival use meaning 'causing weight gain' is a straightforward adjectival form of the verb 'fatten' (fat + -en).

Etymology

Fattening comes from the common word fat ('full of fat') plus the verb ending -en ('to make'), so it literally means 'making fat'. That is why we call foods 'fattening' when they are high in calories and may make a person gain weight.