domestic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to the home.
• Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
• Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
• Internal to a specific country.
• Tending to stay at home; not outgoing.

Noun

• A maid or household servant.
• A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.

Related

Similar words

• bourgeois, civilized, comfortable
• domesticated

Opposite words

• adventurous, social
• foreign, global
• wild, feral

Origin

• From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus.