fat | (adjective) having an (over)abundance of flesh | - |
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(adjective) containing or composed of fat | Synonyms: fatty |
(adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fertile, productive, rich |
(adjective) lucrative | Synonyms: juicy |
(adjective) having a relatively large diameter | - |
(noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness |
(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) | - |
(verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
fatal | (adjective) bringing death | - |
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(adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fateful |
(adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fateful |
(adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful |
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 | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalistic |
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(noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
fatalistic | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalist |
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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 |
fatally | (adverb) with fatal consequences or implications | - |
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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 |
(verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, destine, doom |
fated | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate | Synonyms: doomed |
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fateful | (adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fatal |
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(adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fatal |
(adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: foreboding, portentous |
(adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal |
fatefully | (adverb) in a prophetically fateful manner | - |
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fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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fatheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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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 |
(verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, generate, get, mother, sire |
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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fatherless | (adjective) not having a known or legally responsible father | - |
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(adjective) having no living father | - |
fatherlike | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherly |
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fatherliness | (noun) the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father | Synonyms: paternal quality |
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fatherly | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherlike |
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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 |
(verb) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | Synonyms: sound |
(verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, penetrate |
fathomable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: plumbable, soundable |
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(adjective) (of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended | - |
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 | - |
(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
(verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary |
fatigued | (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, gone, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
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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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fatless | (adjective) without fat or fat solids | Synonyms: fat-free, nonfat |
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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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fatten | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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fattened | (adjective) (of market animals) made ready for market | - |
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fattening | (adjective) subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter | - |
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fattiness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, adiposity |
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fattish | (adjective) somewhat fat | - |
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fattism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fatism |
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fatty | (adjective) containing or composed of fat | Synonyms: fat |
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(noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: butterball, fat person, fatso, roly-poly |
fatuity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuousness, silliness |
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fatuous | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: asinine, inane |
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fatuously | (adverb) vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish | Synonyms: inanely |
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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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