Another word for fat
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Noun
Adipose tissue
- The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow.
See also:An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate
- Surplus; excess.
- An excess of words; verbiage.
- Words or allegations in a legal document or pleading that do not have any legal value.
- Being more than or in excess of what is needed or required:
- An amount or quantity in excess of what is needed.
- Total assets minus the sum of all liabilities.
- The quality or condition of being superfluous.
- Something superfluous:
- Overabundance; excess.
- A supply in excess of what is appropriate or required.
- To supply in excess of what is appropriate or required:
- To stock more of (something) than necessary or desirable.
- An excessive supply.
- To seize the positions of and defeat conclusively:
- To spread or swarm over destructively:
- To spread swiftly throughout:
- Too much; excessive.
- In excess.
- An excessive amount.
- To flow or run over the top, brim, or banks:
- To be filled beyond capacity, as a container or waterway.
- To have a boundless supply; be superabundant.
- An amount, as of money or goods, that is actually on hand and exceeds the listed amount in records or books.
- A surplus; an excess.
- To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate:
- To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
- To eat or indulge in something excessively.
- The state of exceeding what is normal or sufficient:
- An amount or quantity beyond what is normal or sufficient; a surplus:
- The amount or degree by which one quantity exceeds another:
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Adjective
Having too much flesh
- Having considerable weight; heavy.
- Burdensome; oppressive:
- Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
- Bulky in figure; thickset or corpulent.
- Strong in body; sturdy:
- Thick or strong in structure or substance; solid or substantial:
- Having a round, stout body.
- Stately or dignified.
- Of or resembling swine or a pig:
- Weighing more than is normal, necessary, or allowed, especially having more body weight than is considered normal or healthy for one's age or build.
- More weight than is normal, necessary, or allowed.
- Greater weight or importance; preponderance.
- Excessive, exaggerated, or overdone:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic:
- Having excessive body weight caused by the accumulation of fat; extremely fat.
- Exclusive of deductions; total:
- Unmitigated in any way; utter:
- So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense:
- Relating to, consisting of, or resembling flesh:
- Having abundant flesh:
- Having a juicy or pulpy texture:
- Containing or composed of fat:
- Characteristic of fat; greasy.
- Derived from or chemically related to fat.
- Having an abundance or excess of flesh or fat.
See also:Having the qualities of fat
- Excessively ingratiating or insincerely earnest:
- Containing or composed of oil or fat.
- Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery.
- Of or relating to oil.
- Falsely or smugly earnest; unctuous:
- Of or relating to oil.
- Impregnated, smeared with, or containing oil; greasy.
- Excessively suave or ingratiating.
- Coated or soiled with grease.
- Containing grease, especially too much grease:
- Suggestive of grease in slickness or slipperiness:
- Containing or composed of fat:
- Characteristic of fat; greasy.
- Derived from or chemically related to fat.
- Of, relating to, or composed of animal fat; fatty.
- The fat found in adipose tissue.
See also:Affording profit
- Providing satisfaction or gratification:
- Affording profit; remunerative:
- Yielding suitable recompense; profitable.
- Serving to remunerate.
- Yielding profit; advantageous:
- Acquisition of money or other wealth.
- Engaged or successful in acquiring wealth.
- Actually or potentially profitable:
- Producing wealth; profitable:
- Affording advantage; favorable or beneficial.
See also:Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension; not thin:
- Measuring a specified number of units in this dimension:
- Heavy in form, build, or stature; thickset:
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Another word for fat
Modifier
Having excess flesh
Having a large cross section
- Of considerable size, number, quantity, magnitude, or extent; large.
- Having great strength or force:
- Of great significance; momentous:
- Wide in extent from side to side:
- Large in expanse; spacious:
- Having a certain width from side to side:
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension; not thin:
- Measuring a specified number of units in this dimension:
- Heavy in form, build, or stature; thickset:
Productive
- Yielding profit; advantageous:
- Producing fruit, especially in abundance.
- Producing offspring, especially in abundance.
- Capable of producing vegetation:
- Having great material wealth:
- Having great worth or value:
- Made of or containing valuable materials:
See also:Oily
- Of or relating to oil.
- Falsely or smugly earnest; unctuous:
- Containing or composed of fat:
- Characteristic of fat; greasy.
- Derived from or chemically related to fat.
- Coated or soiled with grease.
- Containing grease, especially too much grease:
- Suggestive of grease in slickness or slipperiness:
Noun
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- Soft fatty body tissue.
- Any of a group of organic compounds, including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides, that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents, are oily to the touch, and together with carbohydrates and proteins constitute the principal structural material of living cells.
- Any of numerous mineral, vegetable, or synthetic substances or animal or vegetable fats that are generally slippery, combustible, viscous, liquid or liquefiable at room temperatures, soluble in various organic solvents such as ether but not in water, and used in a great variety of products, especially lubricants and fuels.
- Petroleum.
- A petroleum derivative, such as a machine oil or lubricant.
- A fat, such as butter or lard, used to make cake or pastry light or flaky.
- A shortened form of something, as a word.
- The act of one that shortens.
- The white solid or semisolid rendered fat of a hog.
- To cover or coat with lard or a similar fat.
- To insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.
- The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow.
- Hard fat obtained from parts of the bodies of cattle, sheep, or horses, and used in foodstuffs or to make candles, leather dressing, soap, and lubricants.
- Any of various similar fats, such as those obtained from plants.
- To smear or cover with tallow.
- A type of connective tissue that contains stored cellular fat.
- Soft or melted animal fat, especially after rendering.
- A thick oil or viscous substance, especially when used as a lubricant.
- The oily substance present in raw wool; suint.
- To sob noisily.
- To utter while crying and sobbing.
- To make wet and swollen by weeping.
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