Thesaurus:pamper

Thesaurus

pamper

English

Verb

(transitive)

Sense: to treat gently or with great care

Synonyms

• chuckle (archaic)
• cocker
• coddle
• cosset
• cuddle
• dandle
• make much
• mollycoddle
• nustle (obsolete)
• pamper
• pettle (UK dialect)
• posset
• tidder (dialect)

Hyponyms

• mollycoddle
• spoil    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• cherish
• indulge    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “902. endearment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “pamper” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.