carpetbag

1. 1.

   following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers

   “carpetbag adventurers”

   “a carpetbag government”
2. 2.

   presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality

   “a carpetbag stranger”

   “a capetbag politician”

   Synonymscarpetbagging

   Similarexpedient

1. 1.

   traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century

   Broaderbag

Other forms of carpetbag

plural

carpetbags·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carpetbag

What does carpetbag mean?

carpetbag means "following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carpetbag?

carpetbag has 3 syllables: car-pet-bag. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for carpetbag?

Close synonyms include carpetbagging. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carpetbag a common word?

carpetbag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.