- past tense form of spoon-feed.
- past participle of spoon-feed.
spoon-fed
Americanadjective
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fed with a spoon.
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treated with excessive solicitude; pampered.
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given no opportunity to act or think for oneself.
Having always been spoon-fed, I couldn't meet the challenge of college.
Etymology
Origin of spoon-fed
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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He believes viewers should be active participants and not just have everything spoon-fed to them.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024
Other images include Susan being spoon-fed by her young granddaughter and her lying on her bed having forgotten how to dress herself.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2024
Klein confesses that it sometimes felt as if Wolf had fed Klein's ideas into a "bonkers blender" and then spoon-fed the resulting incoherent mishmash directly to Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023
One of them, Shamim Salim, 26, was being spoon-fed soup by a well-wisher.
From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2023
He had opened a can of mixed vegetables for her, and then spoon-fed her, so she wouldn’t have to take out her arms.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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