What does domesticated mean?
Word: Domesticated
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Domesticated means tamed and used to living with or working for people, like cows, dogs and horses. Plants grown by farmers for food can also be called domesticated.
Synonyms: tame, trained
Antonyms: wild, untamed
How do you spell domesticated?
Syllables: do - mes - ti - cat - ed
Tricky part: It is domestic + ate + d, so the i after the t stays. Students often write domestecated or domisticated.
Watch out for: domestecated, domisticated, domesticted
Memory tip: Domestic means to do with the home, so a domesticated animal has come home to live with people. Write domestic first, then add ated.
Domesticated in a sentence
Example 1: Cows, goats and hens are domesticated animals found on many farms.
Example 2: Wild boars are not domesticated, so they can be dangerous.
Example 3: Rice was domesticated thousands of years ago from a wild grass.
Fun Fact
Dogs are thought to be the first animals people domesticated, long before cows, sheep or horses.
Practise the CREST Way
Spellacadabra
Choose the misspelt word:
a) agricultural
b) hibernation
c) vegetarian
d) dommesticated
Show answer
d) dommesticated. Domestic has one m, and so does domesticated.
Word Champ
Choose the correct word for the blank:
Animals such as horses and llamas, tamed by people over thousands of years, are ___.
a) migratory
b) domesticated
c) endangered
d) nocturnal
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b) domesticated. Endangered animals are at risk of disappearing, migratory ones travel with the seasons and nocturnal ones are active at night.
Word Tally
You get 2 marks for each correctly spelt word in the list. How many marks will you get?
domesticated, livestock, poultery, pasture, catle
a) 8
b) 4
c) 2
d) 6
Show answer
d) 6. Poultry has no e before the r and cattle has a double t, so three words are right: 3 x 2 = 6.
Sound Check
In which word is 'c' pronounced differently?
a) recited
b) located
c) dedicated
d) domesticated
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a) recited. In recited the c is soft and says s; in the other three it is a hard k.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these animals has never been domesticated?
a) the yak
b) the donkey
c) the camel
d) the zebra
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d) the zebra
2. Which domesticated animal gives us most of the world's wool?
a) the sheep
b) the rabbit
c) the goat
d) the camel
Show answer
a) the sheep
