single-breasted

1. 1.

   (of clothing) closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons

   “a single-breasted jacket”

   Antonymsdouble-breasted

Questions about single-breasted

What does single-breasted mean?

single-breasted means "(of clothing) closing with a narrow overlap and fastened with a single row of buttons".

How many syllables are in single-breasted?

single-breasted has 5 syllables: sin-gle--bre-a-sted. The stress falls on "bre".

What is the opposite of single-breasted?

The recorded antonyms are double-breasted.

Is single-breasted a common word?

single-breasted 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.