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Domestic vs. Tame — What's the Difference?

Domestic vs. Tame — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Domestic and Tame

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Domestic

Of or relating to the family or household
Domestic chores.

Tame

Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.

Domestic

Fond of home life and household affairs.

Tame

Naturally unafraid; not timid
"The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame" (Peter Matthiessen).

Domestic

Tame or domesticated. Used of animals.
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Tame

Submissive; docile; fawning
Tame obedience.

Domestic

Of or relating to a country's internal affairs
Domestic issues such as tax rates and highway construction.

Tame

Insipid; flat
A tame birthday party.

Domestic

Produced in or indigenous to a particular country
Domestic oil.
Domestic wine.

Tame

Sluggish; languid; inactive
A tame river.

Domestic

A household servant.

Tame

To make tame; domesticate
Tame a wild horse.

Domestic

Often domestics Household linens.

Tame

To subdue or curb
Tamed his explosive anger.

Domestic

A product or substance discovered in, developed in, or exported from a particular country.

Tame

To change from an uncontrolled or disorderly to a controlled state
Needed some gel to tame his hair.

Domestic

Of or relating to the home.

Tame

Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
They have a tame wildcat.

Domestic

Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
Domestic violence;
Domestic hot water

Tame

Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
The lion was quite tame.

Domestic

(of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.

Tame

(figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.

Domestic

Internal to a specific country.

Tame

(obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.

Domestic

Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

Tame

Not exciting.
This party is too tame for me.
For a thriller, that film was really tame.

Domestic

A maid or household servant.

Tame

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

Domestic

A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

Tame

Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Domestic

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong.

Tame

(transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
He tamed the wild horse.

Domestic

Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

Tame

(intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.

Domestic

Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.

Tame

(transitive) To make gentle or meek.
To tame a rebellion

Domestic

Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

Tame

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Domestic

Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

Tame

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.

Domestic

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic.

Tame

To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness.

Domestic

Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.

Tame

To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

Domestic

A household servant

Tame

Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

Domestic

Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation;
Domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction

Tame

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow.

Domestic

Of or relating to the home;
Domestic servant
Domestic science

Tame

Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

Domestic

Of or involving the home or family;
Domestic worries
Domestic happiness
They share the domestic chores
Everything sounded very peaceful and domestic
An author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste

Tame

Correct by punishment or discipline

Domestic

Converted or adapted to domestic use;
Domestic animals
Domesticated plants like maize

Tame

Make less strong or intense; soften;
Tone down that aggressive letter
The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements

Domestic

Produced in a particular country;
Domestic wine
Domestic oil

Tame

Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;
Domesticate oats
Tame the soil

Tame

Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable;
He tames lions for the circus
Reclaim falcons

Tame

Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans;
The horse was domesticated a long time ago
The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog

Tame

Flat and uninspiring

Tame

Very restrained or quiet;
A tame Christmas party
She was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed

Tame

Brought from wildness into a domesticated state;
Tame animals
Fields of tame blueberries

Tame

Very docile;
Tame obedience
Meek as a mouse

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