verbWord forms: -feeds, -feeding or -fed(transitive)
1.
to feed with a spoon
2.
to overindulge or spoil
3.
to provide (a person) with ready-made opinions, judgments, etc, depriving him or her of original thought or action
spoon-fed in American English
(ˈspuːnˌfed)
adjective
1.
fed with a spoon
2.
treated with excessive solicitude; pampered
3.
given no opportunity to act or think for oneself
Having always been spoon-fed, I couldn't meet the challenge of college
Word origin
[1900–05]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, cathode-ray tube, elder statesman, geopolitics, hydroplane
Examples of 'spoon-fed' in a sentence
spoon-fed
They are spoon-fed to the point of passivity.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I think people want to be spoon-fed.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is hard not to feel spoon-fed.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Might a selffunctioning team not become a spoon-fed team?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Those who were spoon-fed preferred sweet things.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There she spoon-fed him a mouthful of cheesecake.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
His weight fell and he had to be spoon-fed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Sympathetic stories were spoon-fed to journalists in 1994.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They expect to be pampered and spoon-fed most of the time.
The Sun (2010)
Instead, people are spoon-fed hatred and the absolute belief they are above criticism.