fat

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. plump, stout, corpulent, obese, portly, chubby; fertile, profitable, fruitful, rich; greasy, unctuous. See size, rotundity, smoothness, production.Ant., thin, emaciated.

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(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Having excess flesh]

Syn. plump, heavy, overweight, obese, corpulent, portly, stout, fleshy, chubby, potbellied, paunchy, beefy, brawny, solid, plumpish, pleasantly plump, rotund, burly, bulky, unwieldly, husky, stocky, heavyset, thickset, chunky, tubby, pudgy, roly-poly, round, dumpy, flabby, puffy, weighty, hefty, meaty, on the heavy side, well-fed, in need of dieting, pursy, abdominous, adipose, porcine, big, massive, swollen, bloated, hypertrophied, ponderous, lumpish, gross, blowzy, broad in the beam*; see also large 1 .

Ant. thin*, lean, skinny.

2. [Having a large cross section]

Syn. thick, broad, big; see broad 1 , deep 2 .

3. [Productive]

Syn. rich, fruitful, profitable; see fertile 1 .

4. [Oily]

Syn. greasy, fatty, oleaginous; see fatty , oily 1 .

• chew the fat*,

Syn. chat, gossip, confer; see talk 1 .

n.

Syn. blubber, grease, adipose tissue, hydrogenated vegetable fat, tallow, suet, lard, shortening, oil, lipid, flab*.

Edible fats include: butter, butterfat, oleomargarine, margarine, lard, cottonseed oil, olive oil, corn oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, fish oil, coconut oil, palm oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, cod-liver oil, peanut oil. Chemical terms used of edible fats include: saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

adipose tissue, bulk, chubbiness, blubber, obsesity, excess, *winter storage, flesh, *spare tire, *middle-aged spread, excess, beef, lard, grease.

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a.

1. overweight obese, corpulent, chubby, plump, rotund, stout, portly, flabby, *porky, pudgy, fleshy, meaty, swollen, beefy, heavyset, elephantine, blubbery, lumpy, tubby, potbellied, paunchy, walruslike, roly-poly, *blimpy, thickset, full-figured, big-boned, *wide load.

2. rich affluent, prosperous, well-to-do, moneyed, *well-heeled, comfortable, profitable, wealthy.

ANT.: 1. skinny, anorexic, bony, lean. 2. poor, poverty-stricken

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun 1. Adipose tissue: suet. See FAT. 2. An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: excess, glut, overage, overflow, overmuch, overrun, overstock, oversupply, superfluity, surplus, surplusage. See EXCESS. II adjective 1. Having too much flesh: corpulent, fatty, fleshy, gross, obese, overblown, overweight, porcine, portly, stout, weighty. See FAT. 2. Having the qualities of fat: adipose, fatty, greasy, oily, oleaginous, unctuous. See FAT. 3. Affording profit: advantageous, lucrative, moneymaking, profitable, remunerative, rewarding. See GET. 4. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite: thick. See THICK.