domesticated
- Adjective:
- Accustomed to home life; enjoying or suited to household activities and family life: Describes a person, especially one who finds pleasure and satisfaction in home-centered activities.
- Tamed and adapted over generations to live in close association with and for the benefit of humans: Refers to animals or plants that have been bred and controlled by people, differing from their wild ancestors.
Adjective (describing a person): He has become quite domesticated since getting married and enjoys cooking.Some people are naturally domesticated and find joy in gardening and home repairs.
Adjective (describing animals or plants): Dogs and cats are common domesticated animals.Wheat is a domesticated plant that originated from wild grasses.
"to become domesticated": to grow accustomed to or skilled in home life. After years of traveling, he finally became domesticated and settled down.
In a figurative sense: Can describe something made more manageable, orderly, or less extreme. The writer domesticated the wild myths into a structured narrative for children.
Domesticate (verb): To tame (an animal) or adapt (a plant) for human use; to make someone fond of home life. Humans began to domesticate wolves thousands of years ago.
Domestication (noun): The process of domesticating. The domestication of crops was a key step in human development.
- Tame (for animals): Made docile and manageable by humans.
- Housebroken / House-trained (for pets): Trained to live cleanly in a house.
- Home-loving (for people): Fond of home life.
- Domesticated science: A term sometimes used to refer to applied sciences or technology adapted for everyday home use.
- accustomed to home life; others find gratification in it"
- some men think it unmanly to be domesticated
- converted or adapted to domestic use
- domestic animals
- domesticated plants like maize