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- makers of fine wine will pay very high prices for grapes that are the fat of the harvest
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- A-list,
- aristocracy,
- best,
- choice,
- corps d'elite,
- cream,
- crème de la crème,
- elect,
- elite,
- flower,
- illuminati,
- pick,
- pink,
- pride,
- priesthood,
- prime,
- royalty,
- upper crust
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- claimed that there was absolutely no fat in the military's budget
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- there's a definite predisposition for fat on his wife's side of the family
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adjectiveSynonyms & Antonyms of fat (Entry 2 of 2)
- the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit
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- the lake is so fat with trout that you probably could catch fish with a bare hook
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- brimful,
- brimming,
- bursting,
- chock-full
- (or chockful),
- chockablock,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- filled,
- full,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- loaded,
- packed,
- stuffed
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- a set of fat encyclopedia volumes took up the whole shelf
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- outsize
- (also outsized),
- oversize
- (or oversized),
- sizable
- (or sizeable),
- substantial,
- tidy,
- voluminous
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- elongate
- (or elongated),
- needlelike
- small,
- smallish,
- undersized
- (also undersize)
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- the splendid sight of a fat, juicy steak cooked to perfection
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- the fat soil in the river's delta
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- the highly sought-after baseball player signed a fat contract that set a record for the major leagues
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- economic,
- gainful,
- juicy,
- lucrative,
- money-spinning
- [chiefly British],
- moneymaking,
- paying,
- profitable,
- remunerative
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- while others suffered and sacrificed, the war profiteers grew fat
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- affluent,
- deep-pocketed,
- fat-cat,
- flush,
- loaded,
- moneyed
- (also monied),
- opulent,
- rich,
- silk-stocking,
- wealthy,
- well-endowed,
- well-fixed,
- well-heeled,
- well-off,
- well-to-do
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- bankrupt,
- bankrupted,
- beggared,
- broke,
- indebted,
- insolvent,
- pauperized,
- ruined,
- skint
- [chiefly British]
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“Fat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fat. Accessed 27 Jan. 2022.
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