bottle-fed

1. 1.

   (of an infant) given milk from a bottle

   Antonymsbreast-fed

Questions about bottle-fed

What does bottle-fed mean?

bottle-fed means "(of an infant) given milk from a bottle".

How many syllables are in bottle-fed?

bottle-fed has 2 syllables: bott-le-fed. The stress falls on "bott".

What is the opposite of bottle-fed?

The recorded antonyms are breast-fed.

Is bottle-fed a common word?

bottle-fed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.