rug pad

1. 1.

   a pad placed under a carpet

   Synonymscarpet padunderlayunderlayment

   Broaderpad

   Narrowerunderfelt

Questions about rug pad

What does rug pad mean?

rug pad means "a pad placed under a carpet".

What is another word for rug pad?

Close synonyms include carpet pad, underlay, underlayment. 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 rug pad a common word?

rug pad is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.