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pads

/pædz/

pads is the plural of pad.

pads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pad.

Meaning of pad

Noun

pad (plural pads)

  1. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
  2. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
  3. A soft, or small, cushion.
  4. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.
  5. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
  6. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
    • Collie ignored him. Reached the finger further. Closer. And closer yet, until — […] Collie yanked his hand back and peered at it like a kid with an interesting new scrape. Then he turned to Steve and held it out. A bead of blood, small and dark and perfect, was forming on the pad of his index...1996, Stephen King, The Regulators
    Synonyms:
    palp, pulp

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Noun capitalized: PADS

PADS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, neologism, slang) Initialism of post-Avatar depression syndrome (“a feeling of depression brought upon by watching the 2009 epic science fiction film Avatar or its sequels, as a result of not being able to experience the movie's world in real life”).
    • News reports have appeared recently speaking of people who see Avatar and subsequently fall into a deep depression at their inability to access a world in reality as beautiful, entrancing and spiritual as Pandora, the mythical planet depicted in the film. But before you join a Post Avatar...2010 February 23, Eliezer Sobel, “Post-Avatar-Depression-Syndrome (PADS)”, in Reality Sandwich, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2013
    • The condition went by different names: "Avatar" Syndrome, Post-Pandoran Depression or PADS (Post-"Avatar" Depression Syndrome).[2022 November 30, Jamie Lauren Keiles, “'Avatar' and the Mystery of the Vanishing Blockbuster”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022
    Synonyms:
    Avatar blues, PAD, Pandora syndrome, PAS

Synonyms of pads

  • Avatar blues
  • PAD
  • Pandora syndrome
  • PAS

Phrases with pads

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Words that rhyme with pads

Questions about pads

What is pads the plural of?
Pads is the plural of pad.
What part of speech is pads?
Pads is a noun.
How do you pronounce pads?
Pads is pronounced /pædz/.

Words near pads in the dictionary

  1. padroni
  2. Padrons
  3. Padros
  4. padrão
  5. padrões
  6. pads
  7. pads down
  8. pads out
  9. pads the hoof
  10. pads up
  11. padsaw

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pads (page history and authors); PADS (page history and authors); pad (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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