domesticated

Meanings

Verb

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
• make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
  • "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"
• simple past and past participle of domesticate

Adjective Satellite

• converted or adapted to domestic use
  • "domesticated plants like maize"
• accustomed to home life
  • "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it"

Adj

• Selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)

Synonyms

cultivate, domestic, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, naturalise, naturalize, reclaim, tame

Antonyms

undomesticated

Related Words

tame