The old woman was snugly sitting on a cushion.
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Cushion
/ˈkʊʃən/
Synonyms for "cushion" (366 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (74)
abateabsorbabsorb the shockacoustic tileaegisafford supportair mattressallayalleviatealleviativealleviatoranesthetizeanodyneantiknockappeasearmarm guardarmorassuageassuager
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Noun(12 words)
Strong matches (109)
crutchdampdampendampenerdamperdashboardde emphasizedeadendeaden the paindeafendefenddiaphragmdiminishdissepimentdividing linedividing walldivisiondodgerdolorifugedough
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downdulleaseease matterseiderdownensureface maskfeatherfeather bedfeathersfencefendfenderfinger guardfleeceflossflueflufffoamfomentfoot guardfusegaggentlegive reliefgive supportgogglesgovernorguaranteeguardguardrailhand guardhandrailharborhard hathavenhelmetholdhold uphushclothinnerspring mattressinsulateinsulationinsureinterlockinterseptumkapokkeepkeep afloatkeep from harmkeep upkneadknee guardknuckle guardlaminated glasslaxatelaylend supportlenitivelessenlife preserverlifelinelightning conductorlightning rodlimberlimber uplitterloosenlullmainstaymaintainmake safemashmaskmassagematmattressmellow
Noun(10 words)
Verb(1 words)
Related words (183)
midriffmidsectionmildenmitigatemitigatormoderatemoderatormodulatormollifiermollifymudguardmufflemufflermutemuzzlenestleneutralizenose guardnumboffset
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pacificatorpacifierpadpaddingpalladiumpalletpalliatepalliativepanelpariespartitionparty wallpatentpeacemakerpillowpilotplumpplushpolicepoulticepour balm intopour oil onpreventivepropproperty lineprophylacticprotectprotective clothingprotective umbrellapuddingpuffpulpputtyquietenerreduceregisterreinforcerelaxrelieverestraining handride shotgun forrubberrugsafeguardsafetysafety glasssafety plugsafety railsafety shoessafety switchsafety valvesalvesatinscreenseat beltsecuresedativeseparationseptulumseptumshake upsheltershieldshin guardshock absorbershock padshoreshore upshouldershow considerationshow mercyshow pityshroudsilence clothsilencersilkslackenslakesleeping bagsmashsoft pedalsoft-pedalsoftensoften the blowsoften upsoothesoothersoothing syrupsordinesordinosound-absorbing materialsoundproofingsoundproofing insulationsourdinespringspringssquashstabilizerstaystopstupesubduesubsidizesubventionsun helmetsupplesupportsuppresssustainswansdowntempertemperertenderizethistledowntone downtranquilizertune downumbrellaunderbedunderbeddingunderbraceundergirdunderlieunderpinundersetunderwriteupbearupholdupkeepvelvetwallwaxwindscreenwindshieldwiser headwoolzephyr
Noun(22 words)
mitigatepadpadderpaddingpadspillowpillowingpillowsplenty to spareprotectreassurerelievereservesafety netshockshock absorberslacknesssoftensoothesugar
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throw pillowwadding
Adjective(1 words)
thin margin
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
19 entriesabsorptionbedcomfortcushioningdamperdampingdecorative accessoryeconomic securityemotional supportfinancial provisionlayermitigationmodifymufflerpaddingprotective layer
Showing 16 of 19 words.
More specific
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Collocations
12 entriesInflections
3 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
194 translations across 96 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kussing noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Albanian
3 entries- jastëk noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- kultër noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- mëkresë noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- κνέφαλλον noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- στοιβή noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- τύλη noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Arabic
4 entries- مخدة noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- مسند noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- نَمْرَقَة noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- نُمْرُقَة noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Aragonese
1 entries- coxín noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Armenian
1 entries- բարձ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Asturian
1 entries- coxín noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- balış noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- yastıq noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Bashkir
1 entries- мендәр noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Belarusian
1 entries- паду́шка noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Bengali
3 entries- উপাধান noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- কুশন noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- বালিশ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Breton
1 entries- torchenn noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бу́фер noun (absorbent or protective item)
- възгла́вница noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Burmese
3 entries- ကူရှင် noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- ဖုံ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- အခု noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Catalan
1 entries- coixí noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بالیف noun (absorbent or protective item)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 咕順 /咕顺 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- 墊子 /垫子 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- 箍臣 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 墊子 /垫子 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- 軟墊 /软垫 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- 靠墊 /靠垫 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Coptic
1 entries- ϣϣⲟⲧ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- minder noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Czech
4 entries- nárazník noun (absorbent or protective item)
- poduška noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- polštář noun (absorbent or protective item)
- polštářek noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Danish
3 entries- bande noun (absorbent or protective item)
- hynde noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- pude noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Dutch
2 entries- kussen noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- kussen noun (absorbent or protective item)
Esperanto
1 entries- kuseno noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Estonian
1 entries- sohvapadi noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Faroese
2 entries- koddi noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- púta noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Finnish
2 entries- pehmuste noun (absorbent or protective item)
- tyyny noun (soft material in cloth bag)
French
1 entries- coussin noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Friulian
1 entries- cussin noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Galician
4 entries- chumazo noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- coxín noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- mulido noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- troxo noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Georgian
1 entries- ბალიში noun (soft material in cloth bag)
German
3 entries- Kissen noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- Polster noun (absorbent or protective item)
- Puffer noun (absorbent or protective item)
Greek
2 entries- μαξιλάρι noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- στρώμα noun (absorbent or protective item)
Hausa
1 entries- kushin noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Hebrew
2 entries- כַּר noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- כָּרִית noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Hindi
3 entries- तकिया noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- बालिश noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- मसनद noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Hungarian
4 entries- -csillapító noun (absorbent or protective item)
- -tompító noun (absorbent or protective item)
- -védő noun (absorbent or protective item)
- díszpárna noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Icelandic
1 entries- púði noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Ido
1 entries- kuseno noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Igbo
1 entries- kushọn noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Indonesian
1 entries- bantal noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Ingrian
1 entries- aluspoduška noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Interlingua
2 entries- cossinetto noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- cossino noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- بالِش noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- تَکْیِه noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- نازْبالِش noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- کوسَن noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Irish
4 entries- adhartán noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- cúisín noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- pillín noun (absorbent or protective item)
- stuáil noun (absorbent or protective item)
Italian
1 entries- cuscino noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Japanese
3 entries- クッション noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- クッション noun (absorbent or protective item)
- 座布団 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Kannada
1 entries- ಮೆತ್ತೆ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Kazakh
2 entries- жастық noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- көпшік noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Khmer
3 entries- ខ្នល់ខ្នើយ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- ខ្នើយ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- ខ្នើយកែប noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Korean
2 entries- 방석 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- 쿠션 noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- балыш noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- жаздык noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Lao
2 entries- ເບາະ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- ໝອນ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Latin
4 entries- cervīcal noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- cubital noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- culcita noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- pulvīnus noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Latvian
1 entries- spilvens noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pagalvė noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Këssen noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Macedonian
3 entries- ле́гло noun (absorbent or protective item)
- пе́рниче noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- по́длога noun (absorbent or protective item)
Malay
1 entries- kusyen noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Middle English
2 entries- pilwe noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- quysshyn noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Māori
2 entries- aupuru noun (absorbent or protective item)
- kuihana noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Norman
1 entries- couossi noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pute noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Occitan
1 entries- coissin noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Old English
1 entries- bolster noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- بالش noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- یاصدق noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Polish
2 entries- poduszka noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- poduszka noun (absorbent or protective item)
Portuguese
4 entries- almofada noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- almofada noun (absorbent or protective item)
- amortecedor noun (absorbent or protective item)
- coxim noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Romanian
2 entries- amortizor noun (absorbent or protective item)
- pernă noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Russian
4 entries- амортиза́тор noun (absorbent or protective item)
- бу́фер noun (absorbent or protective item)
- поду́шка noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- поду́шка noun (absorbent or protective item)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- pillean noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- jàstuk noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- ја̀стук noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Slovak
1 entries- vankúš noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Slovene
2 entries- blazina noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- blazina noun (absorbent or protective item)
Somali
1 entries- barkin noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Spanish
4 entries- almohadón noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- amortiguante noun (absorbent or protective item)
- citara noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- cojín noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Swedish
3 entries- dyna noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- kudde noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- kudde noun (absorbent or protective item)
Tajik
3 entries- болиш noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- болишт noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- такъя noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Tamil
3 entries- தலையணை noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- மெத்தை noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- மெத்தை noun (absorbent or protective item)
Tarifit
2 entries- tsummet noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- tsunta noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Tatar
2 entries- мендәр noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- ястык noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Telugu
1 entries- దిండు noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Thai
1 entries- เบาะ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Tibetan
2 entries- གདན་སྒོར noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- འབོལ་གདན noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Turkish
1 entries- yastık noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýassyk noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бу́фер noun (absorbent or protective item)
- поду́шка noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Unami
1 entries- mëlukwehun noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Urdu
4 entries- بالِش noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- تَکِیَہ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- تَکْیَہ noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- مَسْنَد noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Uyghur
1 entries- ياستۇق noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Uzbek
2 entries- bolish noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- yostiq noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Venetan
1 entries- cusin noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Vietnamese
3 entries- gối dựa noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- gối xếp noun (soft material in cloth bag)
- đệm noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Volapük
1 entries- kusen noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Welsh
1 entries- clustog noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Yiddish
1 entries- קישן noun (soft material in cloth bag)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Using a doubled-up cushion in place of a pillow I lie down on the hard wooden floor with nothing but a carpet spread over it.
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No practical joker should be without a whoopee cushion.
Source: tatoeba (631947)
Tom placed a cushion on the floor and sat on the cushion.
Source: tatoeba (5069143)
Showing 4 of 25 available sentences.