breast-fed

1. 1.

   (of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast

   Antonymsbottle-fed

   Similarnursed

Questions about breast-fed

What does breast-fed mean?

breast-fed means "(of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast".

How many syllables are in breast-fed?

breast-fed has 2 syllables: breast--fed. The stress falls on "breast-".

What is the opposite of breast-fed?

The recorded antonyms are bottle-fed.

Is breast-fed a common word?

breast-fed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.