Domesticated vs. Tame — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Domesticated and Tame
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Domesticated
To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic.
Tame
Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
Domesticated
To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life.
Tame
Naturally unafraid; not timid
"The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame" (Peter Matthiessen).
Domesticated
To train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans.
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Tame
Submissive; docile; fawning
Tame obedience.
Domesticated
To introduce and accustom (an animal or plant) into another region; naturalize.
Tame
Insipid; flat
A tame birthday party.
Domesticated
A plant or animal that has been adapted to live in a human environment.
Tame
Sluggish; languid; inactive
A tame river.
Domesticated
Simple past tense and past participle of domesticate
Tame
To make tame; domesticate
Tame a wild horse.
Domesticated
Selectively bred to live with or around humans.
Tame
To subdue or curb
Tamed his explosive anger.
Domesticated
Tame, tamed; - of animals. Opposite of wild.
Tame
To change from an uncontrolled or disorderly to a controlled state
Needed some gel to tame his hair.
Domesticated
Accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it.
Tame
Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
They have a tame wildcat.
Domesticated
Acclimated to a new environment; - of plants or animals.
Tame
Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
The lion was quite tame.
Domesticated
Converted or adapted to domestic use;
Domestic animals
Domesticated plants like maize
Tame
(figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
Domesticated
Accustomed to home life;
Some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it
Tame
(obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
Tame
Not exciting.
This party is too tame for me.
For a thriller, that film was really tame.
Tame
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame
Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Tame
(transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
He tamed the wild horse.
Tame
(intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
Tame
(transitive) To make gentle or meek.
To tame a rebellion
Tame
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
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.
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.
Tame
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
Tame
Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
Tame
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow.
Tame
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Tame
Correct by punishment or discipline
Tame
Make less strong or intense; soften;
Tone down that aggressive letter
The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements
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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