door-mat
door-mat is the alternative form of doormat.
Meaning of doormat
Noun
doormat (plural doormats)
- A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
- Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
- Someone who habitually yields to others' demands or mistreatment, failing to assert their own rights or interests.
- He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
- Synonyms:
- bootlicker, simp
Forms of door-mat
| plural | door-mats |
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Questions about door-mat
- What is door-mat the alternative form of?
- Door-mat is the alternative form of doormat.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: door-mat (page history and authors); doormat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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