fat | Definition of fat

fat

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fat

1 having an excess of body fat

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

Synonyms of fat

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

Words Related to fat

beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty

brawny, burly, hefty, husky

dumpy, squat, stubby

hippy, paunchy, potbellied

ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig)

Near Antonyms of fat

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

Antonyms of fat

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 of fat

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

Words Related to fat

overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstuffed

abounding, flush, fraught, replete, rife, swarming, teeming

Near Antonyms of fat

deficient, inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, short, shortish, shy, wanting

depleted, drained, exhausted

Antonyms of fat

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 of fat

broad, thick, wide

Words Related to fat

expansive, extensive, sweeping

commodious, roomy, spacious

outsize (also outsized), oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy, voluminous

Near Antonyms of fat

fine, hairlike, reedlike

elongate (or elongated), needlelike

bottleneck, close, compressed