fat

fat

adjective

Definition of FAT

1

having an excess of body fat <the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit>

Synonyms blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Related Words beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, hefty, husky; dumpy, squat, stubby; hippy, paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig); endomorphic

Near Antonyms angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy; cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted; puny, scraggy, scrawny, slight; rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy; ectomorphic; anorexic

Antonyms lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

2

containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible <the lake is so fat with trout that you probably could catch fish with a bare hook>

Synonyms brimful, brimming, bursting, chockablock, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, filled, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, stuffed

Related Words overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstuffed; abounding, flush, fraught, replete, rife, swarming, teeming

Near Antonyms deficient, inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, short, shortish, shy, wanting; depleted, drained, exhausted

Antonyms bare, blank, devoid, empty, stark, vacant, void

3

having a greater than usual measure across <a set of fat encyclopedia volumes took up the whole shelf>

Synonyms broad, fat, thick

Related Words expansive, extensive, sweeping; commodious, roomy, spacious; outsize (also outsized), oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy, voluminous

Near Antonyms fine, hairlike, reedlike; elongate (or elongated), needlelike; bottleneck, close, compressed, condensed, constricted, contracted, squeezed, tight, tightened; attenuate, attenuated; small, smallish, undersized (also undersize)

Antonyms hairline, narrow, paper-thin, skinny, slender, slim, slim-jim, thin

4

having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite <the splendid sight of a fat, juicy steak cooked to perfection>

Synonyms chunky, fat

Related Words blockish, blocky, bulky, dense, hefty, thickish; broad, deep, wide

Near Antonyms narrow, shallow

Antonyms skinny, slender, slim, thin

5

producing abundantly <the fat soil in the river's delta>

Synonyms cornucopian, fat, fecund, fructuous, fruitful, lush, luxuriant, productive, prolific, rich

Related Words bearing, generative, producing, yielding; abounding, abundant, bountiful; copious, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plentitudinous; blooming, bursting, flourishing, swarming, teeming, thriving; creative, inventive, original

Near Antonyms meager (or meagre), scant, scanty, skimp, skimpy, spare, sparse

Antonyms barren, dead, infertile, sterile, unfertile, unfruitful, unproductive

6

yielding a profit <the highly sought-after baseball player signed a fat contract that set a record for the major leagues>

Synonyms economic, fat, gainful, juicy, lucrative, moneymaking, money-spinning [chiefly British], paying, remunerative

Related Words advantageous, beneficial, favorable, rewarding, useful, worthwhile; bankable

Near Antonyms disadvantageous, unfavorable

Antonyms unprofitable

7

having goods, property, or money in abundance <while others suffered and sacrificed, the war profiteers grew fat>

Synonyms affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, loaded, moneyed (also monied), opulent, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-endowed, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

Related Words better-off, comfortable, propertied, prosperous, substantial, successful; flourishing, prospering, thriving; advantaged, blessed (also blest), privileged

Near Antonyms unaffluent; deprived, disadvantaged, hand-to-mouth, underprivileged; bankrupt, bankrupted, beggared, broke, indebted, insolvent, pauperized, ruined, skint [chiefly British]; depressed, pinched, reduced, straitened; low, short

Antonyms destitute, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken