cushion
Meaning of cushion
- a bag of cloth stuffed with a mass of soft material, used as a comfortable support for sitting or leaning on.
comfortable chairs and sofas piled with cushions
- something providing support or protection against impact.
underlay forms a cushion between carpet and floor
- soften the effect of an impact on.
the bag cushions equipment from inevitable knocks
- mitigate the adverse effects of.
to cushion the blow, wages and pensions were increased
Middle English: from Old French cuissin, based on a Latin word meaning ‘cushion for the hip’, from coxa ‘hip, thigh’. The Romans also had a word cubital ‘elbow cushion’, from cubitus ‘elbow’.
Information about cushion
- The plural form of cushion is: cushions.
- Languages in which cushion is used:
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Hyphenation of cushion
cush-ion
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- cushion is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
cushion synonyms
Meaning shock absorber:
Meaning buffer:
Meaning a rectangular cloth bag stuffed with feathers or other soft materials, used to support the head when lying or sleeping:
Meaning a long, thick pillow that is placed under other pillows for support:
Meaning a padded part extending from or fixed to the back of a seat or chair, designed to support the head:
Meaning a small bag filled with dried beans and used in children's games:
Meaning a young unfledged pigeon:
Meaning a cushion for kneeling on in church, while at prayer:
Meaning a person who kneels, especially in prayer:
Meaning a piece of coarse material placed on a floor for people to wipe their feet on:
Meaning a seat for a passenger behind a motorcyclist:
Meaning a person or thing that protects someone or something:
Meaning a broad piece of metal or another suitable material, held by straps or a handle attached on one side, used as a protection against blows or missiles:
Meaning a defensive wall:
Meaning keep safe from harm or injury:
Meaning protect or shield from something harmful, especially bad weather:
Meaning envelop in a protective or comforting way:
Meaning make or become less; diminish:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:
Meaning make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful:
Meaning act as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something):
Meaning diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry):
Meaning make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe:
Meaning make or become dull or less intense:
Meaning make or become less sharp:
Meaning make (a noise or sensation) less strong or intense:
Meaning take up and reduce the effect or intensity of (sound or an impact):
Meaning wrap or cover for warmth:
Meaning make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate:
cushion antonyms
Meaning make (something) visible by uncovering it:
Meaning become or make more intense:
Meaning make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse:
Translation of cushion
Words that rhyme with cushion
Echion, Munychion, falchion, fauchion, faulchion, nunchion, orecchion, panchion, scuchion, stanchion, stenchion, trichion, Amphion, Ophion, amphion, crotaphion, gumphion, scaphion, sulphion, Cashion, antifashion, disfashion, encushion, fashion, fushion, hushion, misfashion, pincushion, prefashion, recushion, refashion, semifashion, spermashion, transfashion, unfashion, upcushion, Emathion, Fenthion, Gorgythion, Malathion, acanthion, apocynthion, apsinthion, athidathion, carbophenothion, cathion, cekumethion, cekutrothion, chemathion, chlorothion