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/pæt/ · noun
The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep..
We heard a pat on the door.
Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention.
It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.
I patted the cookie dough into shape.
Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
Do you want to pat the cat?
Use pat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pat means The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep..
Common synonyms include banal, bathetic, bromidic, cheesy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We heard a pat on the door.
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