[syn: doormat, welcome mat]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
doormat \doormat\ n.
1. a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the
shoes before entering. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: welcome mat.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. (figurative) A person who is habitually abused, taken
advantage of or humiliated; sometimes, one who is
physically weak; as, they used him for a doormat. [WordNet
sense 1]
Syn: weakling.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
doormat
n 1: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn:
weakling, doormat, wuss]
2: a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes
before entering [syn: doormat, welcome mat]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "doormat":
Milquetoast, baby, big baby, carpet, carpeting, chicken, crybaby,
drop cloth, duckboards, dull tool, floorboards, flooring,
ground cloth, ground-sheet, gutless wonder, invertebrate,
jellyfish, lightweight, mat, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle,
namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pave, pavement,
pushover, rug, sad sack, sissy, softling, softy, sop, tiling,
weak sister, weakling, welcome mat