breast-deep

1. 1.

   up to the breast

   “we were standing breast-high in the water”

   Synonymsbreast-high

Questions about breast-deep

What does breast-deep mean?

breast-deep means "up to the breast".

How many syllables are in breast-deep?

breast-deep has 3 syllables: bre-ast--deep. The stress falls on "bre".

What is another word for breast-deep?

Close synonyms include breast-high. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breast-deep a common word?

breast-deep 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.