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yssi to underwater piles. 2 fix, rivet, focus, concentrate,
direct, aim, point: He fastened his gaze on Kitty. She fastened
her attention on the ceiling.
fastening n. fastener, catch, clasp, latch, lock, tie, bond: Can you see
what kind of fastening is holding the cover?
fastidious
adj. squeamish, delicate, over-nice, fussy, meticulous,
finicky, finical, pernickety or US also persnickety, particular,
difficult, critical, hypercritical, supercritical, over-precise,
punctilious, Colloq nit-picking, picky: The Prioress was too
fastidious to allow a morsel drop from her lip.
fat adj. 1 obese, stout, overweight, heavy, plump, rotund,
corpulent, portly, well-fed, chubby, podgy or chiefly US pudgy,
roly-poly, tubby, bulky, fleshy, paunchy, pot-bellied, overfed,
flabby, elephantine, Colloq broad in the beam, beamy, beefy,
Slang US five-by-five: A fat man squeezed in beside me. 2
oily, oleaginous, unctuous, greasy, fatty, pinguid, sebaceous,
adipose: His complexion is bad because he eats too much fat
food. 3 rich, wealthy, prosperous, affluent, well-to-do, well
off, Colloq well-heeled, loaded: They grew fat on their profits
from the black market. 4 profitable, lucrative, fruitful,
remunerative, Slang cushy: He has a fat job as a purchasing
agent for the government.
--n. 5 obesity, corpulence, stoutness, overweight, heaviness,
plumpness, rotundity, portliness, chubbiness, podginess or
chiefly US pudginess, tubbiness, fleshiness, paunchiness,
flabbiness: He leans a little towards fat because of lack of
exercise. 6 riches, wealth, prosperity, fertility, yield,
abundance, plenty, plenteousness: He's living off the fat of
the land.
fatal adj. 1 fateful, deadly, murderous, lethal, mortal, toxic,
terminal, final; baneful, poisonous: She drank the fatal potion
without a word. Who dealt the fatal blow? 2 destructive,
fateful, ruinous, calamitous, dreadful, disastrous, devastating,
cataclysmic, catastrophic, harmful, mischievous, damaging:
Discovery by the police would prove fatal to our plan. 3
fateful, fated, destined, predestined, decreed, ordained,
foreordained, preordained, predetermined, inevitable,