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door-mat

door-mat is the alternative form of doormat.

Meaning of doormat

Noun

doormat (plural doormats)

  1. 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.
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) 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

pluraldoor-mats

Questions about door-mat

What is door-mat the alternative form of?
Door-mat is the alternative form of doormat.

Words near door-mat in the dictionary

  1. door-keepers
  2. door-knob
  3. door-knobs
  4. door-knocker
  5. door-knockers
  6. door-mat
  7. door-mats
  8. door-nail
  9. door-nails
  10. door-post
  11. door-posts

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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