Synonyms of fat

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adjective

ˈfat 

1

as in plump

having an excess of body fat

the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plump
• round
• obese
• full
• overweight
• chubby
• corpulent
• pudgy
• thick
• husky
• rotund
• tubby
• lardy
• gross
• blubbery
• fleshy
• stout
• heavy
• portly
• podgy
• ripe
• roly-poly
• replete
• bulky
• soft
• stocky
• beefy
• squat
• chunky
• heavyset
• thickset
• burly
• flabby
• dumpy
• plumpish
• paunchy
• stubby
• potbellied
• hefty
• weighty
• brawny
• hippy
• ample
• buxom
• zaftig
• endomorphic
• corn-fed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• thin
• skinny
• lean
• slender
• bony
• slim
• angular
• spare
• skeletal
• gaunt
• lanky
• sinewy
• lank
• wasted
• scrawny
• rawboned
• emaciated
• haggard
• pinched
• cadaverous
• puny
• slight
• stringy
• weedy
• scraggy
• svelte
• willowy
• spindly
• reedy
• waspish
• twiggy
• rangy
• anorexic
• sylphlike
• ectomorphic
• spindling

2

as in filled

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 & Similar Words

• filled
• bursting
• packed
• full
• stuffed
• crowded
• loaded
• crammed
• jammed
• brimming
• brimful
• chock-full
• overstuffed
• chockablock
• overladen
• overfilled
• overcrowded
• overloaded
• jam-packed
• overfull
• overflowing
• teeming
• swarming
• flush
• rife
• fraught
• abounding
• replete

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• empty
• blank
• bare
• short
• vacant
• devoid
• void
• inadequate
• incomplete
• stark
• insufficient
• deficient
• shy
• wanting
• depleted
• drained
• shortish
• exhausted

3

as in wide

having a greater than usual measure across

a set of fat encyclopedia volumes took up the whole shelf

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wide
• thick
• broad
• extensive
• expansive
• sweeping
• voluminous
• spacious
• commodious
• substantial
• sizable
• oversize
• roomy
• tidy
• outsize

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• thin
• skinny
• slender
• slim
• narrow
• fine
• hairlike
• compressed
• paper-thin
• tight
• elongate
• needlelike
• close
• squeezed
• condensed
• slim-jim
• small
• hairline
• tightened
• reedlike
• constricted
• contracted
• attenuated
• undersized
• smallish
• bottleneck
• attenuate

4

as in thick

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 & Similar Words

• thick
• chunky
• dense
• wide
• bulky
• blocky
• deep
• hefty
• thickish
• broad
• blockish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• thin
• slender
• skinny
• narrow
• slim
• shallow

5

as in fertile

producing abundantly

the fat soil in the river's delta

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fertile
• prolific
• rich
• fecund
• productive
• fruitful
• lush
• fructuous
• creative
• luxuriant
• abundant
• generous
• generative
• inventive
• producing
• cornucopian
• plentiful
• bearing
• copious
• yielding
• bountiful
• liberal
• bursting
• original
• plenteous
• thriving
• blooming
• abounding
• flourishing
• teeming
• plenitudinous
• swarming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dead
• sterile
• unproductive
• infertile
• barren
• unfruitful
• sparse
• unfertile
• skimpy
• meager
• spare
• scanty
• scant
• skimp

6

as in lucrative

yielding a profit

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lucrative
• profitable
• economic
• juicy
• paying
• worthwhile
• remunerative
• beneficial
• gainful
• money-spinning
• moneymaking
• rewarding
• advantageous
• useful
• favorable
• bankable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unprofitable
• unfavorable
• disadvantageous

7

as in wealthy

having goods, property, or money in abundance

while others suffered and sacrificed, the war profiteers grew fat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wealthy
• rich
• affluent
• moneyed
• well-endowed
• fat-cat
• well-to-do
• successful
• opulent
• loaded
• well-off
• silk-stocking
• prosperous
• in the chips
• comfortable
• well-heeled
• flush
• well-fixed
• substantial
• deep-pocketed
• better-off
• privileged
• thriving
• propertied
• prospering
• flourishing
• advantaged
• blessed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• poor
• needy
• impoverished
• indigent
• penniless
• destitute
• penurious
• impecunious
• deprived
• disadvantaged
• underprivileged
• bankrupt
• poverty-stricken
• depressed
• indebted
• low
• insolvent
• short
• hand-to-mouth
• reduced
• ruined
• pinched
• unaffluent
• broke
• skint
• pauperized
• straitened
• beggared
• bankrupted

fat

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noun

1

as in best

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 & Similar Words

• best
• aristocracy
• cream
• pink
• elite
• top
• elect
• flower
• royalty
• priesthood
• prime
• Hall of Fame
• society
• choice
• upper crust
• cream of the crop
• crème de la crème
• pride
• illuminati
• A-list
• quality
• corps d'elite
• pick
• establishment
• upper class
• top drawer
• nobility
• caviar
• gentry
• who's who

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• masses
• millions
• herd
• rank and file
• multitude
• mob
• commoners
• unwashed
• hoi polloi

2

as in surplus

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 & Similar Words

• surplus
• excess
• abundance
• overflow
• sufficiency
• surplusage
• overabundance
• surfeit
• overage
• oversupply
• bellyful
• plus
• superfluity
• superabundance
• overplus
• redundancy
• plethora
• overkill
• bounty
• plenty
• overmuch
• profusion
• overproduction
• plentitude
• overstock

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deficit
• deficiency
• insufficiency
• lack
• scarcity
• undersupply
• want
• dearth

3

as in obesity

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 & Similar Words

• obesity
• weight
• fatness
• corpulence
• fattiness
• adiposity
• rotundity
• chubbiness
• corpulency
• plumpness
• embonpoint
• pudginess
• fleshiness
• grossness
• portliness
• stoutness
• pursiness
• bulkiness
• heaviness
• huskiness
• burliness
• endomorphy
• brawniness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• leanness
• slenderness
• thinness
• slimness
• fitness
• svelteness
• trimness
• reediness
• skinniness
• gauntness
• weediness
• scrawniness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fat

Adjective

Purple coneflowers produce high-fat, protein-rich seeds on stiff cones that maintain their shape despite harsh weather. — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2026

Again, this could be an interesting paradox to dig into for comedy, but Gillis simply doesn’t seem to want to, sticking to the same self-denigrating fat jokes he’s always trotted out. — Charu Sinha, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2026

Noun

Most sauces depend on emulsification to come together, which is the mixing of fats and liquids into a homogeneous substance. — Laura Manzano, Martha Stewart, 14 Oct. 2026

The fat is then processed and transferred to the buttocks and hips, resulting in more of an hourglass shape. — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 13 Oct. 2026

Phrases Containing fat

• chew the fat
• fat cat