Definition of fat

"fat" in the noun sense

1. fat

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

"pizza has too much fat"

2. adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue

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"

3. fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois

excess bodily weight

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

"fat" in the verb sense

1. fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up

make fat or plump

"We will plump out that poor starving child"

"fat" in the adjective sense

1. fat

having an (over)abundance of flesh

"he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

2. fat

having a relatively large diameter

"a fat rope"

3. fatty, fat

containing or composed of fat

"fatty food"

"fat tissue"

4. fat, juicy

lucrative

"a juicy contract"

"a nice fat job"

5. fat, fertile, productive, rich

marked by great fruitfulness

"fertile farmland"

"a fat land"

"a productive vineyard"

"rich soil"

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Quotations for fat

Laugh and be fat. [ Ben Jonson ]

To grease a fat sow. [ Proverb ]

Fat, fair, and forty. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

The fat is in the fire. [ Heywood ]

Good pastures make fat sheep. [ As You Like It ]

Fat paunches make lean pates. [ Proverb ]

You find fault with a fat goose. [ Proverb ]

A fat kitchen makes a lean will. [ Franklin ]

Change of pasture makes fat calves. [ Proverb ]

Fat housekeepers make lean executors. [ Proverb ]

The master's eye makes the horse fat. [ Proverb ]

Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow. [ Proverb ]

Better a lean peace than a fat victory. [ Proverb ]

A fat housekeeper makes lean executors. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A green winter makes a fat church-yard. [ Proverb ]

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. [ Proverb ]

A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth. [ Proverb ]

Better is a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit. [ German Proverb ]

The fat man knoweth not what the lean thinketh. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labor Lost ]

Little knows the fat sow what the lean one means. [ Proverb ]

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends. [ Sprague ]

A soul in a fat body lies soft, and is loth to rise. [ Proverb ]

He that hath patience, hath fat thrushes for a farthing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They lard their lean books with the fat of other's works. [ Burton ]

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat. [ Confucius ]

Love makes us thin. If a codfish were a widow, she would become fat. [ Provencal Proverb ]

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind. [ Bovee ]

He that hath one hog makes him fat, and he that hath one son makes him a fool. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that has but one hog makes him fat, and he that has but one son makes him a fool. [ Proverb ]

To seek these things is lost labor: geese in an oil-pot, fat hogs among Jews, and wine in a fishingnet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five and twenty. [ Dryden ]

Let me have men about me that are fat; sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights; yonder Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is something cordial in a fat man, everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. Food does a fat man good; it clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. [ Henry Giles ]

There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]

fat in Scrabble®

The word fat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters fat:

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fat in Words With Friends™

The word fat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters fat:

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The 57 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fat

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Words within the letters of fat

2 letter words in fat (3 words)

3 letter words in fat (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence fat

Word Growth involving fat

Shorter words in fat

at

fa

Longer words containing fat

backfat

butterfat nonbutterfat

cefatrizine

defat defats

defat defatted

defat defatting

defat indefatigability

defat indefatigable indefatigableness

defat indefatigably

fatal fatalism

fatal fatalist fatalistic fatalistical fatalistically

fatal fatalist fatalistic nonfatalistic

fatal fatalist fatalists

fatal fatalities

fatal fatality nonfatality

fatal fatally nonfatally

fatal nonfatal nonfatalistic

fatal nonfatal nonfatality

fatal nonfatal nonfatally

fatberg fatbergs

fate fated illfated

fate fated sulfated oversulfated

fate fated sulfated supersulfated

fate fated sulfated trisulfated

fate fated sulfated unsulfated

fate fateful fatefully

fate fateful fatefulness

fate fates sulfates bisulfates

fate fates sulfates disulfates

fate fates sulfates hydrosulfates

fate fates sulfates persulfates supersulfates

fate fates sulfates pyrosulfates

fate fates sulfates sesquisulfates

fate fates sulfates subsulfates

fate fates sulfates thiosulfates

fate fates sulfates trisulfates

fate sucralfate

fate sulfate bisulfate bisulfates

fate sulfate disulfate disulfates

fate sulfate hydrosulfate hydrosulfates

fate sulfate oxysulfate

fate sulfate persulfate persulfates supersulfates

fate sulfate persulfate supersulfate supersulfated

fate sulfate persulfate supersulfate supersulfates

fate sulfate pyrosulfate pyrosulfates

fate sulfate sesquisulfate sesquisulfates

fate sulfate subsulfate subsulfates

fate sulfate sulfated oversulfated

fate sulfate sulfated supersulfated

fate sulfate sulfated trisulfated

fate sulfate sulfated unsulfated

fate sulfate sulfates bisulfates

fate sulfate sulfates disulfates

fate sulfate sulfates hydrosulfates

fate sulfate sulfates persulfates supersulfates

fate sulfate sulfates pyrosulfates

fate sulfate sulfates sesquisulfates

fate sulfate sulfates subsulfates

fate sulfate sulfates thiosulfates

fate sulfate sulfates trisulfates

fate sulfate thiosulfate thiosulfates

fate sulfate trisulfate trisulfated

fate sulfate trisulfate trisulfates

fate sulfate zircosulfate

fathead fatheaded fatheadedly

fathead fatheaded fatheadedness

fathead fatheads

father fathered godfathered

father fathered grandfathered

father fathered unfathered

father fatherhood

father fathering godfathering

father fathering grandfathering

father fatherinlaw

father fatherland fatherlands

father fatherless fatherlessness

father fatherless grandfatherless

father fatherly grandfatherly

father fathers fathersinlaw

father fathers forefathers

father fathers godfathers

father fathers grandfathers greatgrandfathers

father fathers nonfathers

father fathers stepfathers

father forefather forefathers

father godfather godfathered

father godfather godfathering

father godfather godfathers

father grandfather grandfathered

father grandfather grandfathering

father grandfather grandfatherish

father grandfather grandfatherless

father grandfather grandfatherly

father grandfather grandfathers greatgrandfathers

father grandfather greatgrandfather greatgrandfathers

father nonfather nonfathers

father stepfather stepfathers

father unfatherlike

fathom fathomable unfathomable

fathom fathomed unfathomed

fathom fathoming

fathom fathomless

fathom fathoms

fathom unfathomably

fatigable indefatigable indefatigableness

fatigue fatigued overfatigued

fatigue fatigued unfatigued

fatigue fatigues overfatigues

fatigue overfatigue overfatigued

fatigue overfatigue overfatigues

fatiguing fatiguingly

fatiguing unfatiguing

fatlike

fatly

fatness

fats defats

fats fatstock fatstocks

fats marrowfats

fatted defatted

fatten fattened nonfattened

fatten fattened unfattened

fatten fattening nonfattening

fatten fattens

fatter

fattest

fattier

fatties fattiest

fattiness

fatty fattylooking

fatty fibrofatty

fatty nonfatty

fatty transfatty

fatuous

fatwa fatware fatwares

fatwa fatwas

infatuate infatuated

infatuate infatuates

infatuating

infatuation infatuations

lowfat

marrowfat marrowfats

nonfat nonfatal nonfatalistic

nonfat nonfatal nonfatality

nonfat nonfatal nonfatally

nonfat nonfather nonfathers

nonfat nonfattened

nonfat nonfattening

nonfat nonfatty

prefatorily

prefatory

sulfatase sulfatases

sulfathiazole phtalylsulfathiazole

sulfathiazole phthalylsulfathiazole

sulfathiazole succinylsulfathiazole

sulfathiazole sulfathiazoles

sulfatide sulfatides

sulfating

sulfatisation

sulfatise sulfatised

sulfatise sulfatises

sulfatising

sulfatization

sulfatize sulfatized

sulfatize sulfatizes

sulfatizing

transfat transfatty