Fat and Lean

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Fat

Fat adjective - Having an excess of body fat.
Usage example: the popular image of Santa Claus as a fat man in a red suit
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Lean is an antonym for fat in topics: overweight, fatty, productive, containing an oily substance.
Nearby Words: fatness, fatty, fating

Lean

Lean adjective - Having a noticeably small amount of body fat.
Usage example: all of the marathoners are extremely lean
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Fat is an antonym for lean in topics: thin, bare.
Nearby Words: leaning, leaned, leanness, leant
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  • Mystery Meat Somewhat similar to the chicken nuggets mentioned earlier, the process actually consists of taking the vaguely liquid-like parts that are not used (about 80% fat and 20% lean), and stripping all the fat out.
    Source: Mystery Meat
  • Born Unlucky: Little Sprat, who can only eat Unflavored Deproteinated Soy Slurry due to inheriting both his father's inability to eat fat and his mother's inability to eat lean.
    Source: Webcomic / Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
  • Kevlard Despite the Sword & Sandal stereotype of relatively lean, muscular gladiators, historic gladiators lived on fat-building diets.
    Source: Kevlard
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