Dictionary › D › doormat
doormat
2 syllablesYour browser doesn’t have built-in voices. Try Chrome, Edge or Safari.
Quick answer
As a noun, doormat means a coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
Meanings of doormat
4 meaningsnoun
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.”
figurativelyderogatorySomeone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
“He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.”
A mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering
Similar: welcome mat
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
Words that rhyme with doormat
For word games
d2
o1
o1
r1
m3
a1
t1
Scrabble & Words With Friends: valid word10 points before bonuses.7 letters.
Unscramble these letters