| 单词 | fatness |
| 释义 | fatfat1 /fæt/ ●●● S1 W2 adjective (comparative fatter, superlative fattest) 1FLESH weighing too much because you have too much flesh on your body: He’s short and fat. I always look so fat in pictures. The cat’s starting to get fat. ► You can call yourself fat, but it is not polite to directly tell someone else that he or she is fat: I’m getting really fat.THESAURUSoverweight – used as a more polite way of describing someone who is fat: He’s a little overweight.big/heavy/large – used as polite ways of describing someone who is big, strong, or fat: His mother was a heavy woman in her fifties. He’s a pretty big guy.obese – used about someone who is extremely fat in a way that is dangerous to his or her health: Too many young children are obese these days.chubby/pudgy – used about someone who is slightly fat, especially a baby or a child: She was a cute chubby baby.plump – used to say that someone is slightly fat in a pleasant way, especially a woman or a child: Their grandmother was a plump, smiling woman.tubby informal – used about someone who is short and fat: He was a tubby little man with a bald head.flabby – used to describe a part of your body that is too fat and has soft loose skin: I’m trying to strengthen my arms so they’re less flabby.stout – used about an adult who is slightly fat: The door was answered by a stout woman in her sixties.rotund formal – having a fat round body. Used especially in literature: The actor’s rotund figure makes him perfect for the part of Santa.corpulent formal – very fat. Used especially in literature: The director, a corpulent red-faced man, slammed his fist on the table.2THICK OR WIDE thick or wide: There was a fat envelope waiting for him on his desk. She wore fat red plastic earrings.3MONEY [only before noun] informal containing or worth a large amount of money: He left the waitress a nice fat tip. The bank made a fat profit.4a fat lip a lip that is swollen because it has been injured5fat cat informal disapproving used about someone who has a very senior job in a company, organization, etc., when you think he or she earns too much money6grow fat on something written to become rich because of something: These stockbrokers grow fat on other people’s money.SPOKEN PHRASES7fat chance used to say that something is very unlikely to happen: You want tickets for the big game? Fat chance.8a fat lot of good/use if something is a fat lot of good, it is not useful and does not help you at all: I practiced a lot, but a fat lot of good it did me (=the practice did not help).9a fat lot somebody cares (about somebody/something) used to say that someone does not care at all10be in fat city old-fashioned to have plenty of money[Origin: Old English fætt]—fatness noun [uncountable] |
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