What are some opposite words for featherbed?
Antonyms for featherbedfeath·erbed
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term featherbed.
Princeton's WordNet
feather bed, featherbedverb
a mattress stuffed with feathers
Synonyms:
feather bedpamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulgeverb
treat with excessive indulgence
"grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
Synonyms:
pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, bilk, baby, itch, bungle, muck up, impair, mishandle, bumble, plunder, gratify, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, flub, fumble, vitiate, rape, thwart, ball up, bollocks up, bollocks, screw up, baffle, mess up, luxuriate, despoil, deflower, louse up, bollix, mar, indulge, muff, violate, pander, cocker, foul up, cross, fluff, mollycoddle, bobble, coddle, bollix up, cosset, spoil, corrupt, bodgefeatherbedverb
hire more workers than are necessary
Synonyms:
cosset, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge, baby, cocker, coddle, pamper
How to use featherbed in a sentence?
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
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