fat

The word “fat” has 1 syllable: fat

It's pronounced as /fæt/

What is synonym and antonym for fat?

In the thesaurus, “fat” has 271 synonyms and 156 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fat along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for fat

a-list
abounding
abundance
abundant
adipose
adiposity
advantaged
advantageous
affluent
ample
aristocracy
bankable
bearing
beefy
bellyful
beneficial
best
better-off
big
blessed
blest
blockish
blocky
blooming
blubber
blubbery
bountiful
bounty
brawniness
brawny
brimful
brimming
broad
bulging
bulkiness
bulky
burliness
burly
bursting
buxom
caviar
caviare
cellulite
chock-full
chockablock
chockful
choice
chubbiness
chubby
chunky
comfortable
commodious
copious
corn-fed
cornucopian
corpulence
corpulency
corpulent
crammed
cream
cream of the crop
creative
crowded
cushy
deep
deep-pocketed
dense
distended
dumpy
economic
elect
elephantine
elite
embonpoint
endomorphic
endomorphy
establishment
excess
expansive
extensive
fat-cat
fatlike
fatness
fattiness
fatty
favorable
fecund
fertile
filled
flab
flabby
flesh
fleshiness
fleshy
flourishing
flower
flush
fraught
fructuous
fruitful
full
gainful
gargantuan
generative
generous
gentry
good
greasy
gross
grossness
hall of fame
heaviness
heavy
heavyset
hefty
hippy
huskiness
husky
illuminati
in the chips
inflated
inventive
jam-packed
jammed
juicy
lard
lardy
large
liberal
loaded
lucrative
lush
luxuriant
meaty
money-spinning
moneyed
moneymaking
monied
nobility
obese
obesity
oleaginous
opulent
original
outsize
outsized
overabundance
overage
overcrowded
overfilled
overflow
overflowing
overfull
overkill
overladen
overloaded
overmuch
overplus
overproduction
oversize
oversized
overstock
overstuffed
oversupply
overweight
packed
paunch
paunchy
paying
pick
pink
plenitudinous
plenteous
plentiful
plentitude
plenty
plethora
plump
plumpish
plumpness
plus
podgy
ponderous
porcine
portliness
portly
potbellied
pride
priesthood
prime
privileged
producing
productive
profitable
profusion
prolific
propertied
prospering
prosperous
pudginess
pudgy
pursiness
quality
redundancy
remunerative
replete
rewarding
rich
rife
ripe
roly-poly
roomy
rotund
rotundity
round
royalty
silk-stocking
sizable
sizeable
society
soft
solid
spacious
squat
stocky
stout
stoutness
stubby
stuffed
substantial
successful
suet
suety
sufficiency
superabundance
superfluity
surfeit
surplus
surplusage
swarming
sweeping
swollen
tallow
teeming
thick
thickish
thickset
thriving
tidy
top
top drawer
tubby
unctuous
upper class
upper crust
useful
voluminous
wealthy
weight
weighty
well-endowed
well-fed
well-fixed
well-heeled
well-off
well-to-do
wide
worthwhile
yielding
zaftig
zoftig

Antonyms for fat

angular
anorexic
attenuate
attenuated
bankrupt
bankrupted
bare
barren
beggared
blank
boney
bony
bottleneck
broke
cadaverous
close
commoners
compressed
condensed
constricted
contracted
dead
dearth
deficiency
deficient
deficit
depleted
depressed
deprived
destitute
devoid
disadvantaged
disadvantageous
drained
ectomorphic
elongate
elongated
emaciated
empty
exhausted
failing
fine
fitness
gaunt
gauntness
haggard
hairlike
hairline
hand-to-mouth
herd
hoi polloi
impecunious
impoverished
inadequate
incomplete
indebted
indigent
infertile
insolvent
insufficiency
insufficient
lack
languishing
lank
lanky
lean
leanness
low
masses
meager
meagre
millions
mob
multitude
narrow
needlelike
needy
paper-thin
pauperized
penniless
penurious
pinched
poor
poverty-stricken
puny
rangy
rank and file
rawboned
reduced
reediness
reedlike
reedy
ruined
scant
scanty
scarcity
scraggy
scrawniness
scrawny
shallow
short
shortish
shy
sinewy
skeletal
skimp
skimpy
skinniness
skinny
skint
slender
slenderness
slight
slim
slim-jim
slimness
small
smallish
spare
sparse
spindling
spindly
squeezed
stark
sterile
straitened
stringy
svelte
svelteness
sylphlike
thin
thinness
tight
tightened
trimness
twiggy
unaffluent
underprivileged
undersize
undersized
undersupply
unfavorable
unfertile
unfruitful
unproductive
unprofitable
unwashed
vacant
void
want
wanting
waspish
wasted
weediness
weedy
willowy

Meanings of fat

noun
1. A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
2. A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
3. That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
4. An erection.
5. A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe).
6. The best or richest productions; the best part.
7. Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
8. A fat person.
9. A beef cattle fattened for sale.
10. A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
11. A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
verb
1. To make fat; to fatten.
2. To become fat; to fatten.
adjective
1. Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
2. Thick.
3. Bountiful.
4. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
5. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
6. Fertile; productive.
7. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
8. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
9. Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
10. (originally African American Vernacular English) Excellent; cool; very good.
11. Sexy.
12. Rich in texture; prominent.

Example Sentences

The cat grew fat after being spoiled with treats.
He trimmed the fat off the meat before cooking.
The doctor advised reducing fat intake for better health.
That wallet is thick with a fat stack of cash.
The goose became fat just in time for the feast.

On this page you'll find 427 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fat, such as: a-list, abounding, abundance, abundant, adipose, adiposity, advantaged.

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