double-breasted

1. 1.

   (of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons

   “double-breasted jacket”

   “double-breasted suit”

   Antonymssingle-breasted

Questions about double-breasted

What does double-breasted mean?

double-breasted means "(of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons".

How many syllables are in double-breasted?

double-breasted has 5 syllables: do-u-ble--brea-sted. The stress falls on "ble-".

What is the opposite of double-breasted?

The recorded antonyms are single-breasted.

Is double-breasted a common word?

double-breasted 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.