fat
noun · adjective · verb
Simple meaning
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body.
Pronunciation
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fatIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈfæt
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
uncountable
A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
A beef cattle fattened for sale.
countable
A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
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.”
Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.
adjective
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
Thick; large.
Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
Bountiful.
Fertile; productive.
verb
Make fat or plump
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A2 · Elementary
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
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This meaning: A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
Used this way, fat is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
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- cholesterolnoun
- fattyadjective
- butternoun
- insulinnoun
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