Pampered vs Cosseted - What's the difference?
pampered | cosseted |
(pamper)
To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
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, title= (dated) To feed luxuriously.
pampered
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(cosset)
As verbs the difference between pampered and cosseted
is that pampered is (pamper) while cosseted is (cosset).As an adjective cosseted is
pampered.pampered
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*pamper
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
Synonyms
* coddleAnagrams
* ----cosseted
English
Alternative forms
* cossettedAdjective
(en adjective)- a cosseted childhood
- a cosseted elite
- cosseted and pampered
- they are a pampered, cossetted bunch
- ''They have been pampered, cosseted , doted upon, helmeted.
- Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure.
Private pupils are cosseted, says Gove wife.], [[w:The Times, The Times] from 6 March 2014
- Independent schools churn out teenagers who are cosseted , snobbish and unable to open a can of beans, Michael Gove’s wife has suggested.