Thesaurus
fat
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of FAT
1
having an excess of body fat <the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit>
Synonyms blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby
Related Words beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty; brawny, burly, hefty, husky; dumpy, squat, stubby; hippy, paunchy, potbellied; flabby, soft; ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig); endomorphic
2
containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible <the lake is so fat with trout that you probably could catch fish with a bare hook>
Synonyms brimful, brimming, bursting, chockablock, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, filled, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, stuffed
Related Words overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstuffed; abounding, flush, fraught, replete, rife, swarming, teeming
Near Antonyms deficient, inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, short, shortish, shy, wanting; depleted, drained, exhausted
3
having a greater than usual measure across <a set of fat encyclopedia volumes took up the whole shelf>
Related Words expansive, extensive, sweeping; commodious, roomy, spacious; outsize (also outsized), oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy, voluminous
Near Antonyms fine, hairlike, reedlike; elongate (or elongated), needlelike; bottleneck, close, compressed, condensed, constricted, contracted, squeezed, tight, tightened; attenuate, attenuated; small, smallish, undersized (also undersize)
4
having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite <the splendid sight of a fat, juicy steak cooked to perfection>
5
producing abundantly <the fat soil in the river's delta>
6
yielding a profit <the highly sought-after baseball player signed a fat contract that set a record for the major leagues>
Synonyms economic, fat, gainful, juicy, lucrative, moneymaking, money-spinning [chiefly British], paying, remunerative
Near Antonyms disadvantageous, unfavorable
Antonyms unprofitable
7
having goods, property, or money in abundance <while others suffered and sacrificed, the war profiteers grew fat>
Synonyms affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, loaded, moneyed (also monied), opulent, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-endowed, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
Related Words better-off, comfortable, propertied, prosperous, substantial, successful; flourishing, prospering, thriving; advantaged, blessed (also blest), privileged
Near Antonyms unaffluent; deprived, disadvantaged, hand-to-mouth, underprivileged; bankrupt, bankrupted, beggared, broke, indebted, insolvent, pauperized, ruined, skint [chiefly British]; depressed, pinched, reduced, straitened; low, short
Antonyms destitute, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken
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