fat

nouns

a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
"pizza has too much fat"
fat
is made of
cells composed of fat
adipose cell, fat cell
is a type of (narrower)
an oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates)
lipid, lipide, lipoid
a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
"fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue
is derived from
fatty
excess bodily weight
"she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"
avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness

verbs

make fat or plump
"We will plump out that poor starving child"
fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out

adjectives

having an (over)abundance of flesh
"he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
fat
is derived from
fatness
antonym
thin
is similar to
having a large belly
abdominous, paunchy, potbellied
is similar to
swollen with fat
"blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual"
blubbery
is similar to
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
"a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump";
chubby, embonpoint, plump
is similar to
(of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous
"a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton;
buxom, zaftig, zoftig
is similar to
excessively fat
"a weighty man"
corpulent, obese, rotund, weighty
is similar to
having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw
double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled
is similar to
short and plump
dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby
is similar to
somewhat fat
fattish
is similar to
usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
fleshy, heavy, overweight
is similar to
repellently fat
"a bald porcine old man"
gross, porcine
is similar to
euphemisms for `fat'
"men are portly and women are stout"
portly, stout
see also
having a squat and fleshy build
"a pyknic practical joke"
endomorphic, pyknic
see also
curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged
"low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"
rounded
see also
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"
thick
is an attribute of
the weight of a person's body
body weight
having a relatively large diameter
"a fat rope"
fat
is similar to
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"
thick
containing or composed of fat
"fatty food"; "fat tissue"
fat, fatty
lucrative
"a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
fat, juicy
marked by great fruitfulness
"fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
fat, fertile, productive, rich