fattening
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Causing weight gain: Describes food or a diet that is likely to make a person or animal gain weight, typically because it is high in calories.
- Used for making animals heavier before slaughter: Refers to the process or conditions intended to increase an animal's weight, specifically to prepare it for being killed for meat.
Usage
- The word "fattening" is used to describe foods, ingredients, or practices that promote weight gain. It often carries a negative connotation in human nutrition, suggesting something unhealthy or to be avoided for weight management. In agriculture, it is a neutral, descriptive term for a phase of livestock production.
Examples
- Adjective:
- Many people avoid desserts because they are considered fattening.
- The farmer moved the cattle to a fattening pen for their final few months.
- Potato chips and sugary drinks are fattening snacks.
Advanced Usage
- "fattening up": This phrasal form emphasizes the process of causing weight gain, often for a specific purpose.
- They are fattening up the turkey for Thanksgiving.
- (Figurative) He's been fattening up his savings account for a year.
Variants and Related Words
- Fatten (verb): To make or become fat or fatter.
- The farmer needs to fatten the pigs before the fair.
- Fat (noun/adjective): The substance or quality of being overweight.
Synonyms
- Caloric: Relating to calories; high-calorie.
- Rich: (Of food) containing a lot of fat, butter, eggs, etc., and likely to cause fullness or weight gain.
Antonyms
- Dietetic: Relating to diet or controlled food intake.
- Low-calorie: Containing few calories.
Related Phrases/Idioms
- "Fattening fodder": A specific term in farming for food given to animals to fatten them.
- "Fattening food": A common collocation for food that causes weight gain.
Adjective
- subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter
- a fattening hog
- fattening pens