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say it: fat
fat is an adjective, noun and verb meaning "having an (over)abundance of flesh". It carries 9 recorded senses.
having an (over)abundance of flesh
“he hadn't remembered how fat she was”
marked by great fruitfulness
“fertile farmland”
“a fat land”
“a productive vineyard”
“rich soil”
a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
“pizza has too much fat”
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”
excess bodily weight
“she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.