fat

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having an overabundance of flesh

   I hadn't remembered how fat I was.

2. 2
   adj

   containing or composed of fat

   fatty food

3. 3
   adj

   having a relatively large diameter

   a fat rope

4. 4
   noun

   excess bodily weight

   I started going to the gym, because I disliked my fat.

5. 5
   noun

   a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)

   pizza has too much fat

6. 6
   adj

   Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

   The fat man had problems going through the door.

7. 7
   adj

   Thick; large.

   The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

8. 8
   adj

   Bulbous; rotund.

   So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Etymology

From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.