Dictionary entry details
• FAT (noun)
Meaning:
A soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Context example:
pizza has too much fat
Hypernyms ("fat" is a kind of...):
lipid; lipide; lipoid (an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates))
Meronyms (parts of "fat"):
acylglycerol; glyceride (an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils)
Meronyms (substance of "fat"):
triglyceride (glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fat"):
medulla; myelin; myeline (a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers)
leaf fat; leaf lard (fat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard)
cocoa butter (a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans)
animal fat (any fat obtained from animals)
edible fat (oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue)
polyunsaturated fat (a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol)
Holonyms ("fat" is a substance of...):
adipose cell; fat cell (cells composed of fat)
Meaning:
A kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
adipose tissue; fatty tissue; fat
Context example:
fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold
Hypernyms ("fat" is a kind of...):
animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fat"):
love handle; spare tire (excess fat around the waistline)
belly; paunch (a protruding abdomen)
mons; mons pubis; mons veneris (a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women)
puppy fat (fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescence)
cellulite (lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc.)
atheroma (a fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow)
flab (loose or flaccid body fat)
Meaning:
Excess bodily weight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
fatness; avoirdupois; blubber; fat
Context example:
she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others
Hypernyms ("fat" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fat"):
adiposeness; adiposity; fattiness (having the property of containing fat)
abdominousness; paunchiness (the bodily property of a protruding belly)
greasiness; oiliness; oleaginousness (consisting of or covered with oil)
corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)
• FAT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having much flesh (especially fat)
Context example:
he hadn't remembered how fat she was
Similar:
portly; stout (euphemisms for 'fat')
gross; porcine (repellently fat)
fleshy; heavy; overweight (usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it)
fattish (somewhat fat)
dumpy; podgy; pudgy; roly-poly; tubby (short and plump)
double-chinned; jowly; loose-jowled (having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw)
corpulent; obese; rotund; weighty (excessively fat)
compact; heavyset; stocky; thick; thickset (heavy and compact in form or stature)
buxom; chubby; embonpoint; plump; zaftig; zoftig (euphemisms for slightly fat)
blubbery (swollen with fat)
abdominous; paunchy; potbellied (having a large belly)
Also:
endomorphic; pyknic (having a squat and fleshy build)
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)
Attribute:
body weight (the weight of a person's body)
Antonym:
thin (lacking excess flesh)
Meaning:
Having a relatively large diameter
Context example:
a fat rope
Similar:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
Meaning:
Containing or composed of fat
Synonyms:
fatty; fat
Context examples:
fatty food / fat tissue
Similar:
superfatted ((of soap) containing extra unsaponified fat)
suety (like or full of suet)
greasy; oily; oleaginous; sebaceous (containing an unusual amount of grease or oil)
buttery (resembling or containing or spread with butter)
adipose (composed of animal fat)
Meaning:
Lucrative
Synonyms:
juicy; fat
Context examples:
a juicy contract / a nice fat job
Similar:
profitable (yielding material gain or profit)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Meaning:
Marked by great fruitfulness
Synonyms:
rich; fertile; productive; fat
Context examples:
fertile farmland / a fat land / a productive vineyard / rich soil
Similar:
fruitful (productive or conducive to producing in abundance)
Meaning:
A chubby body
Synonyms:
rounded; fat
Context example:
the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks
Similar:
endomorphic; pyknic (having a squat and fleshy build)
• FAT (verb)
Meaning:
Make fat or plump
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; flesh out; plump out; plump; fill out
Context example:
We will plump out that poor starving child
Hypernyms (to "fat" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
"Fat" entails doing...:
feed; give (give food to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
