fat – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of fat

Adjective: fat

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativefatter
Superlativefattest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • The fat man had problems going through the door.
  • The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
  • 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
  • While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.
  • […] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…” [1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times:]
  • And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […] [1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas:]
  • Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that. [2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 46:]
  • The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
  • The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival. [1861, Charles James Lever, A Day's Ride:]
  • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. [1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
  • Make the heart of this people fat,[…] [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 6:10, column 1:]
  • 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
  • making our western wits fat & mean
  • a fat soil; a fat pasture
  • Land was fatter, soil was rich, hands were many [1974, “Which Way Africa”, performed by Tunji Oyelana:]
  • It's a fat contract for a fat part in the film, so he’ll grown fat on the profits.
  • a fat benefice; a fat office;  a fat job
  • now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk [1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:]
  • , "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
  • persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
  • a fat take; a fat page
  • Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot. [1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81:]
  • He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state. [1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre, page 131:]
  • He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value. [1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing, page 12:]
  • Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie. [2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens, page 9:]
  • 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
  • I'd've liked to hang around but the guys were in a fat hurry.
  • fat client
  • a fat pointer
  • This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer. [2011, Joe Shambro, How to Start a Home-based DJ Business, page 19:]

Adjectives inflected like fat

WET, fat, fit, hot, wet, squat, flat, phat,

Etymology

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

Verbs referencing "fat"

Latin Adjectives pinguis.