Usually means: Increasing body fat through eating.
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  1. fattening: Merriam-Webster
  2. fattening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fattening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fattening: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fattening, fattening: Wordnik
  6. fattening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fattening: Wiktionary
  8. fattening: Dictionary.com
  9. fattening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. fattening: Rhymezone
  11. fattening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. fattening: FreeDictionary.org
  13. fattening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. fattening: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. fattening: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. fattening: Legal dictionary

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  1. fattening: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value.
▸ noun:  The act of making something fatter, particularly in reference or allusion to livestock.
▸ noun:  The act of becoming fatter.

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finished, calorific, high-calorie, gut-busting, caloric, fatted, heavy, hypercaloric, calorie-ful, battling, more...

Opposite:
slimming, weight loss, low-calorie, healthy, lean

Types:
sugary, fried, fast food, processed, junk food, more...

Phrases:
non fattening, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, rapid, final, intensive, further, non, early, commercial, artificial, excessive

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    beige,     cream,     chocolate,     caramel,     butter, more...



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Similar:
finished, calorific, high-calorie, gut-busting, caloric, fatted, heavy, hypercaloric, calorie-ful, battling, more...

Opposite:
slimming, weight loss, low-calorie, healthy, lean

Types:
sugary, fried, fast food, processed, junk food, more...

Phrases:
non fattening, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, rapid, final, intensive, further, non, early, commercial, artificial, excessive

Colors:
    beige,     cream,     chocolate,     caramel,     butter, more...



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