Synonyms of breeding

breeding 1 of 2

noun

ˈbrē-diŋ 

as in lineage

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended

a family of good breeding that is well respected in the community

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lineage
• ancestry
• pedigree
• origin
• genealogy
• family
• extraction
• descent
• parentage
• birth
• blood
• stock
• strain
• bloodline
• family tree
• line
• succession
• race
• heredity
• relations
• house
• relatives
• kin
• kindred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• seed
• progeny
• issue
• offspring
• posterity
• child
• son
• heir
• successor
• inheritor

breeding

2 of 2

verb

present participle of breed

1

as in reproducing

to bring forth offspring

rabbits will breed very frequently unless they're kept separated

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reproducing
• propagating
• multiplying
• producing
• procreating
• spawning
• hatching
• generating
• parenting
• having
• siring
• begetting
• mothering
• getting
• engendering
• gendering
• bearing

2

as in raising

to bring to maturity through care and education

he was bred to a life in the military by his father, himself an army captain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• raising
• fostering
• rearing
• nurturing
• teaching
• feeding
• promoting
• nursing
• watching
• cultivating
• educating
• bringing up
• nourishing
• training
• attending
• fathering
• mothering
• schooling
• supplying
• disciplining
• ministering (to)
• instructing
• providing (for)
• furthering
• leading
• mentoring
• preparing
• guiding
• caring (for)
• forwarding
• cradling
• enlightening
• showing
• advancing
• tutoring
• indoctrinating
• minding
• directing
• shepherding
• edifying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• mistreating
• abusing
• ignoring
• maltreating
• mishandling
• neglecting
• ill-treating
• ill-using
• harming
• injuring
• hurting

3

as in creating

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

this habit of favoring one employee over the others will breed resentment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• bringing
• spawning
• generating
• producing
• doing
• prompting
• working
• yielding
• inducing
• making
• effecting
• invoking
• bringing about
• translating (into)
• drawing on
• resulting (in)
• begetting
• giving rise to
• engendering
• promoting
• catalyzing
• effectuating
• introducing
• bringing forth
• bringing on
• occasioning
• encouraging
• establishing
• contributing (to)
• developing
• fostering
• initiating
• founding
• determining
• launching
• pioneering
• cultivating
• beginning
• inaugurating
• starting
• deciding
• instituting
• furthering
• nurturing
• rendering
• advancing
• forwarding
• conducing (to)
• enacting
• fathering
• setting
• setting up
• innovating
• turning out
• nourishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• controlling
• crushing
• suppressing
• checking
• stifling
• repressing
• smothering
• restraining
• inhibiting
• subduing
• curbing
• retarding
• killing
• quashing
• putting down
• dampening
• arresting
• quelling
• destroying
• squashing
• squelching
• abolishing
• canning
• extinguishing
• cracking down (on)
• liquidating
• clamping down (on)
• quenching
• demolishing
• reining (in)
• stilling
• snuffing (out)

4

as in sleeping

to engage in sexual intercourse

cats breeding outside our window made a horrible racket last night

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sleeping
• mating
• doing it
• having sex
• copulating
• fornicating
• fooling around

5

as in planting

to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set

parents who breed in their children a deep respect for people of all classes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• planting
• implanting
• inseminating
• rooting
• embedding
• sowing
• lodging
• inculcating
• instilling
• driving
• infixing
• enrooting
• investing
• pounding
• hammering
• intrenching
• imbedding
• inoculating
• entrenching
• infusing
• imbuing
• fixing
• steeping
• suffusing
• engraining
• ingraining

Examples of breeding in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

These ecosystem changes have disrupted the natural patterns of feeding and breeding that once kept multiple species of whitefish separate. —Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024

That's why Australia and the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance have set up a new breeding center to figure out how to help this unique, strange looking creature breed in captivity. —Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024

The population has grown over the years thanks to a local breeding and reintroduction program. —Outside Online, 24 July 2024

In the spring of 2024, naturalists counted 17 breeding pairs—a nearly 113 percent increase from the eight pairs counted in 2009—as well as 15 nests and 25 chicks. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024

Phrases Containing breeding

• breeding ground