Antonyms of verb breast-feed

1 sense of breastfeed

Sense 1
breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck -- (give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places")
       Antonym of bottlefeed (Sense 1)
      => bottlefeed -- (feed (infants) with a bottle)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb breast-feed

1 sense of breastfeed

Sense 1
breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck -- (give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places")
       => feed, give -- (give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat")

Antonyms of adj breast-fed

1 sense of breast-fed

Sense 1
breast-fed (vs. bottle-fed) -- ((of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast)

bottle-fed (vs. breast-fed) -- ((of an infant) given milk from a bottle)

Similarity of adj breast-fed

1 sense of breast-fed

Sense 1
breast-fed (vs. bottle-fed) -- ((of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast)
       => nursed, suckled -- ((of an infant) breast-fed)

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