“fattest” is a form of
fat
/ˈfæt/ adjective, noun, verb
Forms fatter fattest fats fatting fatted
- adjective (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin. “The fat man had problems going through the door.”
- adjective Thick; large. “The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.”
- adjective Bulbous; rotund.
- adjective Bountiful.
- adjective Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- adjective (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
- adjective Fertile; productive. “a fat soil; a fat pasture”
- adjective Rich; producing a large income; desirable. “It's a fat contract for a fat part in the film, so he’ll grown fat on the profits.”
- noun (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. “Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.”
- noun Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts. “Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.”
- noun (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids. “Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.”
- noun That part of an organization deemed wasteful. “We need to trim the fat in this company”
- noun (slang) An erection. “I saw Daniel crack a fat.”
- noun (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- noun The best or richest productions; the best part. “to live on the fat of the land”
- noun (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
- verb (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten. “kill the fatted calf”
- verb (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
- verb (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
- noun (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
Synonyms
thick chubby chunky corpulent lardy obese overweight plump porky rotund tubby well-fed bountiful prosperous fatty fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person blubber flab speck weight adipose tissue fatty tissue fatness avoirdupois fatten flesh out fill out plump out fatten out fatten up
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).
From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).
From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.
From French fat (“conceited person”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.]
- noun A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.]
- adjective Abounding with fat; as: (a) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox. (b) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; --said of food.
- adjective Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
Etymology [See Vat, n.]
Etymology [AS. fætt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr. pi to swell.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fat”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details