| fat | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness |
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| (noun) a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs | Synonyms: adipose tissue, fatty tissue |
| (noun) a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) | - |
| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fatalist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| fatality | (noun) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters | - |
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| (noun) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster | Synonyms: human death |
| fatback | (noun) salt pork from the back of a hog carcass | - |
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| fate | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: destiny |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: destiny |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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| (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
| (noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
| (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
| (noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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| fatherliness | (noun) the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | Synonyms: paternal quality |
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| fathom | (noun) a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth | Synonyms: fthm |
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| (noun) (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore | Synonyms: fthm |
| fathometer | (noun) depth finder for determining depth of water or a submerged object by means of ultrasound waves | Synonyms: sonic depth finder |
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| fatigability | (noun) susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength | - |
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| fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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| (noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
| (noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
| (noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
| fatigues | (noun) military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
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| fatism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fattism |
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| fatness | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fat |
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| fatso | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatty, roly-poly |
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| fattiness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, adiposity |
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| fattism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fatism |
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| fatty | (noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatso, roly-poly |
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| fatuity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuousness, silliness |
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| fatuousness | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuity, silliness |
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| fatwa | (noun) a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority | - |
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| fatwah | (noun) (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar | - |
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