Antonyms for unweaned

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ween

Phonetic Transcription : win

Definition of unweaned

Origin : Old English wenian "to accustom," from Proto-Germanic *wanjanan (cf. Old Norse venja, Dutch wennen, Old High German giwennan, German gewöhnen "to accustom"), from *wanaz "accustomed" (related to wont). The sense of weaning a child from the breast in Old English was generally expressed by gewenian or awenian, which has a sense of "unaccustom" (cf. German abgewöhnen, entwöhnen "to wean," literally "to unaccustom"). The prefix subsequently wore off. Figurative extension to any pursuit or habit is from 1520s.

As in juvenile : adj childish

Example sentences :

Seven children, one of them unweaned, and then all these fads to put up with.
Extract from : « The Light Shines in Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy

So spoke Mrs. Crowfield, “unweaned from china by a thousand falls.”
Extract from : « Household Papers and Stories » by Harriet Beecher Stowe

So spoke Mrs. Crowfield, "unweaned from china by a thousand falls."
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 » by Various

They take mares which have unweaned foals, and give them no food for three days.
Extract from : « Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 » by Charles Dudley Warner

Here we come, Jinny an' me—six miles in the slush up to the hub, an' Jinny with a unweaned colt at home.
Extract from : « Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches » by Ruth McEnery Stuart

Once, when Alice S—— was staying with me and we had no servants, she and I undertook to bake a very infantine and unweaned pig.
Extract from : « Station Amusements » by Lady Barker

Unweaned puppies were offered as victims of expiation to the Lares and Penates.
Extract from : « The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. II (of II) » by Walter M. Chandler

A woman with an unweaned baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks were sitting on some feather beds.
Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy

Grief and hunger had dried up the fountain of life in her bosom, and her unweaned child had perished of starvation.
Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 » by Various

I have an unweaned baby, besides the older children: girls and boys, who have to be looked after, and need guidance.
Extract from : « The Light Shines in Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy

Synonyms for unweaned

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