featherbed

1. 1.

   a mattress stuffed with feathers

   Synonymsfeather bed

   Broadermattress

Other forms of featherbed

plural

featherbeds·

past tense or participle

featherbedded

present participle

featherbedding

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 featherbed

What does featherbed mean?

featherbed means "treat with excessive indulgence". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in featherbed?

featherbed has 3 syllables: feat-her-bed. The stress falls on "feat". In IPA it is /ˈfɛðɚˌbɛd/.

What is another word for featherbed?

Close synonyms include pamper, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle. 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 featherbed a common word?

featherbed 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.

What rhymes with featherbed?

9 words rhyme with featherbed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.