What are some opposite words for baby?

Antonyms for baby
ˈbeɪ biba·by

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  1. babyadjective

    To coddle.

    a baby boy

    Synonyms:
    little

  2. babynoun

    Synonyms:
    babys, love, babby, babbie, big baby, infant, babe

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. baby, babe, infantnoun

    a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

    "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"

    Synonyms:
    infant, child, babe, sister

  2. babynoun

    the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)

    "the baby of the family"; "the baby of the Supreme Court"

    Synonyms:
    infant, child, babe, sister

  3. child, babynoun

    an immature childish person

    "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!"

    Synonyms:
    nestling, tiddler, fry, babe, sister, child, youngster, shaver, tyke, nipper, minor, kid, small fry, tike, infant

  4. babynoun

    an unborn child; a human fetus

    "I felt healthy and very feminine carrying the baby"; "it was great to feel my baby moving about inside"

    Synonyms:
    infant, child, babe, sister

  5. baby, babe, sisternoun

    (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women

    Synonyms:
    infant, sis, child, babe, sister

  6. babynoun

    a very young mammal

    "baby rabbits"

    Synonyms:
    infant, child, babe, sister

  7. babyverb

    a project of personal concern to someone

    "this project is his baby"

    Synonyms:
    infant, child, babe, sister

  8. pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulgeverb

    treat with excessive indulgence

    "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

    Synonyms:
    pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, bilk, itch, bungle, muck up, impair, mishandle, bumble, plunder, gratify, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, flub, fumble, vitiate, rape, thwart, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, bollocks, screw up, baffle, mess up, luxuriate, despoil, deflower, louse up, bollix, mar, indulge, muff, violate, pander, cocker, foul up, cross, fluff, mollycoddle, bobble, coddle, bollix up, cosset, spoil, corrupt, bodge

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. babyadjective

    Synonyms:
    infantine, infantile, babyish

  2. babynoun

    Synonyms:
    infant, babe, suckling, nursling, child

  3. babyverb

    Synonyms:
    humor, fondle, indulge, coddle, pet, cosset

How to use baby in a sentence?

  1. Virginia Kelley:

    There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

  2. Bill Terry:

    Showing a community that their son or daughter has value has a lot of power to it, i've had local mothers come to me and say, 'I didn't think anybody cared about my baby, but you do because their name is there.'.

  3. Mayana Akbari:

    She's 35, and I'm only 20. She practically raised me since I was a baby, she was a selfless, caring person.

  4. Hiroshi Motomura:

    It also echoes some things like 'welfare baby' and things like that that make it sound like what's really going on is some strange people are having too many babies and overwhelming majority culture, i think there's that image that's associated with some of these terms, like talking about people breeding too much.

  5. Kim Vaillancourt:

    The baby gave me a chance. I’ve got to give the baby a chance.

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