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fatly

Variant of fat

adjective fatter, fattest

    1. containing or full of fat; oily; greasy
    2. having much fat in relation to lean: said of meat
    3. containing volatile oil: fat coal
    4. containing much resin: fat wood
    1. fleshy; plump
    2. too plump; corpulent; obese
  1. thick; broad: the fat part of the bat
  2. containing something valuable in great quantity; fertile; productive: fat land
  3. profitable; lucrative: a fat job
  4. prosperous
  5. supplied plentifully; ample
  6. stupid; dull
  7. Slang desirable because large or important: a fat role for an actor

noun

  1. any of various mixtures of solid or semisolid triglycerides found in adipose animal tissue or in the seeds of plants: they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents
  2. any such substance used in cooking
  3. fleshiness; plumpness; corpulence
  4. the richest or finest part of anything
  5. anything unnecessary or superfluous that can be trimmed away
  6. Chem. a class of neutral lipids consisting of the various triglycerides: they are called oils if in the liquid state

transitive verb, intransitive verb fatted, fatting

to make or become fat

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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