housebroken

Thân thiện

The puppy is now housebroken and goes outside to do his business.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • (Of a domestic pet) Trained to excrete (urinate and defecate) outdoors or in a designated place, such as a litter box. This term specifically describes an animal that has learned not to relieve itself indiscriminately inside a human dwelling.

Usage

• The term is primarily used as an adjective to describe a pet's state of training.
• It is most commonly applied to dogs and cats.
• The British English equivalent is "house-trained."

Examples

• Adjective:
  • We adopted a puppy, but it isn't housebroken yet, so we have to take it outside frequently.
  • All the cats at the shelter are housebroken and use their litter boxes perfectly.
  • It took several weeks of consistent training to get the new dog housebroken.

Advanced Usage

• The term can sometimes be used humorously or metaphorically to describe a person who is well-behaved or has learned to conform to social rules, though this is informal.
  • After a few strict roommates, he's finally housebroken and remembers to do the dishes.

Variants and Related Words

• House-train (verb): The action of training a pet to be housebroken.
  • We need to house-train the new puppy as soon as possible.
• House-trained (adjective): The chiefly British synonym for "housebroken."
  • Is your cat house-trained?

Synonyms

• House-trained (chiefly British)
• Toilet-trained (can be used, but is more general and often applied to human children)

Antonyms

• Untrained
• Unhousebroken

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place
   • housebroken pets
   • `house-trained' is chiefly British

Từ đồng nghĩa

• house-trained