Synonyms for fat
- adjective
- noun
- verb
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Rich — fertile; productive
rich, fertile, profitable, oleaginous, productive, wealthy, loaded, luxuriant, bountiful, plentiful, prosperous, well-heeled informal, fruitful
2. Obese — thick; large
obese, chubby, corpulent, plump, overweight, adipose, tubby, pudgy, rotund, big informal, gross, portly, thick, greasy, stout, oily, roly-poly, fleshy, heavy, sebaceous, chunky, pot-bellied
Other
well-fed, lucrative, remunerative, rewarding, dumpty, blubbery, lardy slang informal, fattish rare, suety rare
Noun
1. Blubber
fatness, avoirdupois, blubber vulgar informal
2. Animal tissue
Other
fatty, excess, surplus, shortening US, vat
Verb
Definitions
- adj. 1
Thick; large.
The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
- adj. 2
Fertile; productive.
a fat soil; a fat pasture
- n. 1
A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
- v. 1
To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
Related words
- Word family
- fat-buttocked fathead fatheaded fatmisia fatmobile fatness fatphobia fatphobic
- Phrases
- chew the fat fat person cut it fat fat hen wool fat big fat fat client fat choy
- Is a kind of
- tissue
Example sentences
- rich Even if I were rich, I wouldn't give money to him.
- obese Some are just obese, others have a bonus goiter.
- chubby Tom told me that he thought that Mary was chubby.
- dumpty Said Mr. Dumpty to Mr. Gravity, "You crack me up!"
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| fat | rising | |
| rich | rising | |
| oleaginous | falling | |
| obese | rising | |
| chubby | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1, vat1
- 4 letters
- rich1, oily2, lard1, suet
- 5 letters
- heavy2, gross1, thick1, fatty2, obese2, stout1, plump1, tubby2, pudgy2, lardy, suety
- 6 letters
- loaded2, excess2, grease1, greasy2, chubby2, chunky2, fleshy2, dumpty2, fatten2, portly2, rotund2
- 7 letters
- wealthy2, surplus2, fertile2, adipose3, blubber2, fatness, fattish
- 8 letters
- fruitful2, blubbery
- 9 letters
- rewarding3, lucrative3, plentiful3, bountiful3, luxuriant4, sebaceous3, corpulent
- 10 letters
- productive3, profitable4, overweight3, prosperous3, shortening3, oleaginous5
- 11 letters
- avoirdupois
- 12 letters
- remunerative5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oily2 = 2 syllables).