PADS Synonyms: 240 Similar and Opposite Words

pads 1 of 3

noun

plural of pad

as in notebooks

a number of sheets of writing paper glued together at one edge the waitress keeps a pad in the pocket of her apron to write down orders

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as in beds

a place set aside for sleeping I went back to my pad to get some rest

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as in buffers

something that serves as a protective barrier a pad on the chair to keep it from getting scratched

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as in roofs

the place where one lives welcome to my pad

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pads

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of pad

as in colors

to add to the interest of by including made-up details the journalist was fired for padding certain stories to make them more interesting

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pads

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of pad

as in treads

to go on foot a cat padded silently by

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Noun

Diego Rodriguez’s work uniform as a photographer consists of knee pads, a camera and a lanyard strung with animal call whistles. — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 26 Aug. 2026 Jonas thinks SpaceX needs just eight pads to reach his 2040 forecast. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 Sneed didn’t wear pads in practice until the final days of training camp and didn’t play at Tampa Bay. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026 But Starbase Louisiana's 10 launch pads will be for more than propellant delivery. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Along with the maze, the farm has two jump pads, a hay maze and hay pyramid, an apple train, a kid’s corn pit, mega slide, tire mountain, bubble barn, confusion maze, tractor rides and other activities. — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 Three more pads are being built in Florida at Cape Canaveral. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026 Then Barnes and the Dolphins trainer removed Mauigoa’s pads and walked him inside for further examination. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026 Figure skating comes to mind when maneuvering the SpinWave SmartTeam Sanitizing Spin Mop with two reusable microfiber pads. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 20 Aug. 2026

Verb

In other words, the additional money that our companies are shelling out to cover higher memory costs ultimately pads these three companies’ bottom lines. — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 21 June 2026 Adding the killer’s voice just pads an already too-long book. — Maren Longbella, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025 Not to say there aren’t some clunkers, most notably a jokey take-me-out-to-the-ballgame baseball number that pads the second act, but the Flaherty-Ahrens score was and is Ragtime‘s signature achievement. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025 The exchange is indicative of this odd, frustrating, occasionally intriguing project, which pads out scarce but real nuggets of insight with leading questions and endless clips. — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025 Stanfield is the second new face named this month, after French actor Paul Kircher, as Anderson pads out the ranks of his men’s ambassadors following a rash of appointments on the women’s side. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pads

Noun

The best smart notebooks This smart notebook fits in a pocket, has 48 reusable pages and comes with the Pilot Frixion pen required for note-taking.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Lunch boxes, markers, notebooks and notebook filler paper.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025

Definition of notebooks

Noun

If experimentally realized, programmable delay systems like this could eventually be used to synchronize optical signals, create adjustable delay lines and buffers, reshape optical transmission bands, and perform frequency conversion.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026
Resilience without buffers is just endurance, and endurance is not a development strategy.

— Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of buffers

Noun

While solar roofs are not new, Hongqi’s approach replaces conventional crystalline silicon cells with thin and flexible perovskite photovoltaic materials.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Green roofs can be expensive to install, and researchers have found that not all plants perform well in those conditions.

— Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of roofs

Verb

That history still colors how the company talks, less like a supplement label and more like a couple of people who have been through it.

— Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 17 July 2026
This four-part series was made by people who love Burning Man, which definitely colors the doc — but at least the first episode shows the place off pretty well.

— David Pierce, The Verge, 11 July 2026

Definition of colors

Verb

Through rapid-fire verbal repartee, constant close-ups, and frantic cuts, Deramas treads a careful line between tragedy and comedy, the latter a psychological weapon against the former.

— Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026
Speaking of the houseboat, the finale treads some familiar ground for Lewis.

— Hunter Ingram, Variety, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of treads

Noun

That includes people who switched from Biktarvy or complex treatment regimens with multiple tablets.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Union officials who represent corrections officers at the BOP, however, say that the tablets may create safety concerns for staff and be misused.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of tablets

Noun

Food and drink The inn's lobby doubles as a café that’s open to the public for certain hours of the day—enjoy a coffee and pastry on one of the front porch’s comfortable couches to start the day right.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026
For over a year, 50 women slept on bunk beds in an area that’s now a computer/community room decorated with mid-century modern couches and chairs.

— Trevor Morgan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

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