肥大

féidà
adjective #21,900

Meanings

  1. 1 baggy (of clothes)
  2. 2 loose-fitting
  3. 3 (medicine) hypertrophy
  4. 4 fat and large

Examples

Tā chuān le yī jiàn féidà de wàitào, kànqǐlái hěn huájī.
He wore an oversized coat and looked quite comical.
Yīshēng jiǎnchá fāxiàn tā de xīnzàng féidà.
The doctor found that his heart was enlarged during the examination.

Tips

usage
肥大 has two main uses: (1) baggy or oversized clothing; (2) medical hypertrophy (organ enlargement), as in 心肌肥大 (cardiac hypertrophy) or 前列腺肥大 (prostate hypertrophy). Context distinguishes the two clearly.

Stroke Order

féi