Word Meanings - FATTISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.

Related words: (words related to FATTISH)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• OBSTRUCTER
  One who obstructs or hinders.
• LOOKOUT
  1. A careful looking or watching for any object or event. 2. The place from which such observation is made. 3. A person engaged in watching. 4. Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
• INCLINING
  See 3
• ANXIOUSNESS
  The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
• OBSTRUCT
  before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• PUFFY
  1. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very stout, puffy man." Thackeray. 2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
• INCLINATORY
  Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• OBSTRUCTION
  1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their
• LOOKING-GLASS
  A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• INCLINNOMETER
  An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
• LOOKER
  One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.
• FATNESS
  1. The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7. 2. Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. Rowe. 3. That which
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• FLOOKY
  Fluky.
• DOWNLOOKED
  Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. Dryden.
• GOOD-LOOKING
  Handsome.
• ON-LOOKING
  Looking on or forward.
• OVERLOOK
  1. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. with burning eye did
• OVERANXIOUS
  Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.
• LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
  See VENUS