fat

fat

noun

Definition of FAT

1

individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class <makers of fine wine will pay very high prices for grapes that are the fat of the harvest>

Synonyms A-list, aristocracy, best, choice, corps d'elite, cream, crème de la crème, elect, fat, flower, illuminati, pick, pink, pride, priesthood, prime, royalty, upper crust

Related Words establishment, gentry, nobility, quality, society, top, top drawer, upper class; caviar (also caviare); who's who

Near Antonyms commoners, herd, hoi polloi, masses, millions, mob, multitude, rank and file, unwashed

2

the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed <claimed that there was absolutely no fat in the military's budget>

Synonyms bellyful, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, surplusage

Related Words abundance, bounty, plentitude, plenty, profusion, sufficiency; overproduction, overstock

Near Antonyms dearth, lack, scarcity, want

Antonyms deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, undersupply

3

the condition of having an excess of body fat <there's a definite predisposition for fat on his wife's side of the family>

Synonyms adiposity, chubbiness, corpulency, embonpoint, fat, fatness, fattiness, fleshiness, grossness, obesity, plumpness, portliness, pudginess, pursiness, rotundity, weight

Related Words bulkiness, heaviness; huskiness, stoutness; brawniness, burliness; endomorphy

Near Antonyms fitness, trimness; gauntness, scrawniness, skinniness, weediness

Antonyms leanness, reediness, slenderness, slimness, svelteness, thinness