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Word3 fat
WordType (adjective)
Phonetic /fæt/ /fæt/
Example
  • a big fat man/woman
  • you'll get fat if you eat so much chocolate.
  • he grew fatter and fatter.
  • i was ashamed of my fat flabby legs.
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fat

(adjective)/fæt/ /fæt/

    Word Family

    • fat adjective
    • fatty adjective
    • fatten verb
    • fattening adjective
  1. having too much flesh on it and weighing too much
    • NOTE AT thin
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/thin_1#thin_topg_2
    • a big fat man/woman
    • You'll get fat if you eat so much chocolate.
    • He grew fatter and fatter.
    • I was ashamed of my fat flabby legs.

    Extra Examples

    • I was sitting next to a big fat man.
    • Try to cut out the foods that are making you fat.
  2. containing a lot of fat
    • fat bacon/sausages
  3. thick or wide
    • a fat volume on American history
    • a big fat envelope stuffed with banknotes
  4. large in quantity; worth a lot of money
    • a fat sum/profit
    • He gave me a nice fat cheque.
  5. used for saying that you do not believe something is likely to happen
    • ‘They might let us in without tickets.’ ‘Fat chance of that!’
    • Fat chance of him helping you!
  6. not at all good or useful
    • Paul can't drive so he was a fat lot of use when I broke my arm.
  7. used for saying that a situation may still change, for example that a contest, election, etc. is not finished yet, and somebody still has a chance to win it
  8. Word Origin

    • Old English fǣtt ‘well fed, plump’, also ‘fatty, oily’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist.
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