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Synonyms for featherbed in English

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featherbed:
- feather bed; featherbed
- featherbed; spoil; baby; pamper; coddle; mollycoddle; indulge; cosset; cocker

English

Detailed Synonyms for featherbed in English

featherbed:

featherbed [the ~] noun

the featherbed

– a mattress stuffed with feathers ¹
the feather bed; the featherbed
– a mattress stuffed with feathers ¹
- feather bed [the ~] noun
- featherbed [the ~] noun

featherbed verb

featherbed

– hire more workers than are necessary ¹
featherbed
– hire more workers than are necessary ¹
- featherbed verb
featherbed

– treat with excessive indulgence ¹
to spoil; baby; to pamper; to coddle; mollycoddle; indulge; cosset; featherbed; cocker
– treat with excessive indulgence ¹
- spoil verb (spoils, spoiled, spoiling)
- baby verb
- pamper verb (pampers, pampered, pampering)
  - grandparents often pamper the children¹
- coddle verb (coddles, coddled, coddling)
- mollycoddle verb
  - Let's not mollycoddle our students!¹
- indulge verb
- cosset verb
- featherbed verb
- cocker verb

Alternate Synonyms for "featherbed":

feather bed; mattress
pamper; cosset; cocker; baby; coddle; mollycoddle; spoil; indulge; treat; handle; do by
hire; engage; employ

Related Definitions for "featherbed":

a mattress stuffed with feathers¹
hire more workers than are necessary¹
treat with excessive indulgence¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University