| Noun | 1. | fat - a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"edible fat - oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue animal fat - any fat obtained from animals; "animal fat is high in saturated fatty acids" leaf fat, leaf lard - fat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard acylglycerol, glyceride - an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils; "fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and very little free acid" 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 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) medulla, myelin, myeline - a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers 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 | |
| 2. | fat - a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"flab - loose or flaccid body fat atheroma - a fatty deposit in the intima (inner lining) of an artery; can obstruct blood flow cellulite - lumpy deposits of body fat especially on women's thighs etc. puppy fat - fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolsecence | |
| 3. | fat - excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" | |
| Verb | 1. | fat - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | |
| Adj. | 1. | fat - having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" 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; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets" lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare | |
| 2. | fat - having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"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; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets" | |
| 3. | fat - containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" | |
| 4. | fat - lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech profitable - yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market" | |
| 5. | fat - marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"fruitful - productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply" | |
| 6. | fat - a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" | |