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full-fat

full-fat adjective: having all of the features or traits; not cut down or simplified.

Adjective

full-fat (not comparable)

  1. Having all of the features or traits; not cut down or simplified.
    • So as the six-year conceptual design phase ends next month, and the design teams face extinction, the partners […] have begun frantic efforts to keep ITER alive, ginning up concepts for an "ITER light" that promise to cut costs in half while providing most of the features of the full-fat version.1998, Science & Government Report, volume 28, page 10
    Antonyms:
    lite
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, fat.
    • full-fat milk
    • the full-fat version of a recipe

Antonyms of full-fat

Questions about full-fat

What does full-fat mean?
Full-fat means having all of the features or traits; not cut down or simplified.
What part of speech is full-fat?
Full-fat is an adjective.

Words near full-fat in the dictionary

  1. full-dressed
  2. full-driven
  3. full-eyed
  4. full-face
  5. full-faced
  6. full-fat
  7. full-figured
  8. full-fledged
  9. full-fledgedly
  10. full-fledgedness
  11. full-fleshed

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