fat

fat is a 3-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
2. noun. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
3. superlative. Abounding with fat
4. superlative. Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
5. superlative. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
6. superlative. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
7. superlative. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
8. superlative. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
9. superlative. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
10. superlative. Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
11. noun. An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
12. noun. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
13. noun. Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
14. adjective. To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
15. intransitive verb. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
16. noun. excess bodily weight

    "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others"

    Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness

17. noun. 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"

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

    "pizza has too much fat"

19. verb. make fat or plump

    "We will plump out that poor starving child"

    Synonyms: fatten, plump

20. adjective. having an (over)abundance of flesh

    "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

21. adjective. containing or composed of fat

    "fatty food"

    "fat tissue"

    Synonyms: fatty

22. adjective. marked by great fruitfulness

    "fertile farmland"

    "a fat land"

    Synonyms: fertile, productive, rich

23. adjective. lucrative

    "a juicy contract"

    "a nice fat job"

    Synonyms: juicy

24. adjective. having a relatively large diameter

    "a fat rope"

Synonyms

avoirdupois, blubber, fatness, fatten, plump, fatty, fertile, productive, rich, juicy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in fat:

aft, atf

Common word forms

fats, fatal, fated, fates, fatly, fating, fatted, fatter, fatless, fatness, fattest, fatting

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