CUSHIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cushioned mean? 

• CUSHIONED (adjective)
  The adjective CUSHIONED has 1 sense:

1. softened by the addition of cushions or padding

  Familiarity information: CUSHIONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSHIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Softened by the addition of cushions or padding

Synonyms:

cushioned; cushiony; padded

Similar:

soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

 Context examples 

The Lady Tiphaine had sunk back in her cushioned chair, and her long dark lashes drooped low over her sparkling eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the cushioned seat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scarcely less prominent was an ample cushioned easy-chair near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it; and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now, the old sofa was a regular patriarch of a sofa—long, broad, well-cushioned, and low, a trifle shabby, as well it might be, for the girls had slept and sprawled on it as babies, fished over the back, rode on the arms, and had menageries under it as children, and rested tired heads, dreamed dreams, and listened to tender talk on it as young women.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Two young, graceful women—ladies in every point—sat, one in a low rocking-chair, the other on a lower stool; both wore deep mourning of crape and bombazeen, which sombre garb singularly set off very fair necks and faces: a large old pointer dog rested its massive head on the knee of one girl—in the lap of the other was cushioned a black cat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)