Doormat

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  doormat \doormat\ n.
     1. a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the
        shoes before entering. [WordNet sense 2]
  
     Syn: welcome mat.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. (figurative) A person who is habitually abused, taken
        advantage of or humiliated; sometimes, one who is
        physically weak; as, they used him for a doormat. [WordNet
        sense 1]
  
     Syn: weakling.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  doormat
       n 1: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn: {weakling},
             {wuss}]
       2: a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes
          before entering [syn: {welcome mat}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "doormat":
     Milquetoast, baby, big baby, carpet, carpeting, chicken, crybaby,
     drop cloth, duckboards, dull tool, floorboards, flooring,
     ground cloth, ground-sheet, gutless wonder, invertebrate,
     jellyfish, lightweight, mat, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle,
     namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pave, pavement,
     pushover, rug, sad sack, sissy, softling, softy, sop, tiling,
     weak sister, weakling, welcome mat