weaned

4.5

A young animal or child that no longer drinks its mother's milk and eats other food

adjective
/wiːnd/

: destetado

After being weaned, the puppy happily began eating solid food instead of relying on its mother's milk.

So once they are weaned, then we say OK, well they don't need milk anymore.

Examples

So once they are weaned, then we say OK, well they don't need milk anymore.

Jackson Galaxy
When we talk about kittens who still make biscuits, right, who still do this, we know it's because of being weaned kind of early from their mom.
So these guys over here, they aren't weaned until they're seven years old.
He didn't want to be weaned and he didn't like baby food.
The young child was finally weaned from breastfeeding and started enjoying various healthy snacks.
Once the calves were weaned, they were introduced to a diet of grass and grains to help them grow.

Antonyms

dependent

182 2.8

Relying on someone else for help or support

unweaned

1 8.8

A baby or young animal that is not yet eating food other than its mother's milk

How Weaned

weaned

4.5

unweaned

1 8.8

suckling

1 6.1

Surface Forms

weaned positive

Morphology

weaned = wean (transparent) = wean + ed

Regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'wean' with the suffix '-ed'; meaning directly denotes the result of weaning.

Etymology

Weaned comes from the old word wean, which meant 'to get someone used to something different'. Imagine a mother slowly giving a baby solid food so it stops needing milk, and that is why weaned describes a young animal or child that no longer needs its mother's milk.