bottle-fed
Definition
- Adjective:
- Given milk from a bottle: Describes an infant or young animal that is fed with milk from a bottle, as opposed to being breastfed.
Usage
- The term is used to describe the feeding method of an infant or young animal.
- It is typically used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb).
- It contrasts with "breastfed."
Examples
- Attributive use:
- The bottle-fed baby slept soundly after her meal.
- We adopted a bottle-fed kitten.
- Predicative use:
- Because of the mother's illness, the infant was bottle-fed.
- The calf was bottle-fed after it was separated from its mother.
Advanced Usage
- "to be bottle-fed": The passive verbal phrase describing the action.
- All of their children were bottle-fed from birth.
- Used in discussions about infant nutrition, parenting choices, and animal care.
Variants and Related Words
- Bottle-feed (verb): To feed (an infant or young animal) with a bottle.
- The zookeepers had to bottle-feed the orphaned tiger cub.
- Bottle-feeding (noun or gerund): The act or practice of feeding from a bottle.
- Bottle-feeding requires careful sterilization of equipment.
Synonyms
- Formula-fed: Often used synonymously when referring to infants fed with commercial infant formula from a bottle.
- The formula-fed infants in the study showed normal growth patterns.
Antonyms
- Breastfed: Fed with milk directly from the mother's breast.
- The breastfed group had slightly different outcomes.
Adjective
-
(of an infant) given milk from a bottle
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