Adjective: fattening fat-ning or fa-tu-ning
- (of food) tending to make the eater overweight
"Cream cakes are very fattening"
- Subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter
"a fattening hog"; "fattening pens"
- Make fat or plump
"The farmer fattened the pigs for market";
- fat [archaic], flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
See also: finished
Type of: alter, change, modify
Encyclopedia: Fattening