Word Meanings - FAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24. 2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. Hebert.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FAT)

• Big
• Large
• great
• wide
• huge
• bulky
• proud
• arrogant
• pompous
• fat
• massive
• gross
• Corpulent
• Stout
• burly
• portly
• lusty
• plethoric
• fleshy
• Plump
• Well-conditioned
• wellrounded
• chubby
• strapping
• bouncing
• brawny
• full
• round

Related words: (words related to FAT)

• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• BOUNCING
  1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray. 2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet , the common soapwort . Harper's Mag.
• PLUMPNESS
  The quality or state of being plump.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• BOUNCE
  1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. Dryden. 2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• PROUDISH
  Somewhat proud. Ash.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• OVERPROUD
  Exceedingly or unduly proud. "Overproud of his victory." Milton.