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| Main Entry: | domestic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | household |
| Synonyms: | calm, devoted, family, home, homely, pet, private, sedentary, settled, subdued, submissive, tame, trained, tranquil, domiciliary, home-loving, homelike, indoor, stay-at-home |
| Notes: | a domestic animal is a pet; a domesticated animal is a formerly wild animal bred for human use |
| Antonyms: | business, industrial, office |
| Main Entry: | domestic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not foreign |
| Synonyms: | homemade, indigenous, inland, internal, intestine, municipal, national, native, handcrafted, home-grown, intramural |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreign |
| Main Entry: | attendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who serves others |
| Synonyms: | aide, alarm clock, assistant, auxiliary, chaperon, companion, custodian, domestic, escort, follower, guide, helper, lackey, nurse, orderly, secretary, servant, understudy, usher, waitperson, baby sitter, bird dog |
| Antonyms: | boss, manager |
| Main Entry: | employee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person being paid for working for another or a corporation |
| Synonyms: | agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, breadwinner*, clerk, cog*, craftsperson, desk jockey*, domestic, hand, help, hired gun*, hireling, laborer, member, operator, plug*, representative, salesperson, servant, slave, worker, blue collar, company person, hired hand, jobholder, pink collar, sales help, staff member, wage-earner, white collar, working stiff |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | homegrown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grown at home |
| Synonyms: | domestic, homemade, native |
| Main Entry: | indigenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | native, inborn |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, autochthonous, congenital, domestic, endemic, homegrown, inbred, inherent, inherited, innate, natural, original, primitive, chthonic, connate, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreign |
| Main Entry: | interior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inside, central |
| Synonyms: | domestic, gut, home, inland, inner, innermost, internal, intimate, inward, private, remote, secret, visceral, within, autogenous, endogenous, in-house, viscerous |
| Antonyms: | exterior, external, outer, outside |
| Main Entry: | internal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | within |
| Synonyms: | civic, constitutional, domestic, enclosed, gut, home, indigenous, inherent, innate, inner, inside, interior, intestine, intimate, intrinsic, inward, municipal, national, native, private, subjective, visceral, centralized, circumscribed, in-house, innermore, intramural, viscerous |
| Antonyms: | external, outer |
| Main Entry: | lackey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
| Synonyms: | attendant, butler, domestic, drudge, factotum, retainer, steward, subordinate, toady, underling, valet, yes-person, doormat, flunkey |
| Main Entry: | municipal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning cities |
| Synonyms: | borough, city, civic, civil, community, corporate, domestic, home, incorporated, internal, local, metropolitan, native, public, town, urban, burghal |
| Antonyms: | country, suburban |
| Main Entry: | national |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning a country with a |
| Synonyms: | civil, communal, domestic, ethnic, general, governmental, home, imperial, inland, internal, native, politic, political, public, royal, social, sovereign, state, sweeping, vernacular, widespread, countrywide, federal, government civic, interstate, nationwide, societal |
| Antonyms: | local |
| Main Entry: | servant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who waits on another |
| Synonyms: | assistant, attendant, dependent, domestic, drudge, help, helper, hireling, menial, minion, retainer, serf, slave, cleaning person, live-in, server |
| Antonyms: | master |
| Main Entry: | subdued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet, controlled |
| Synonyms: | crestfallen, dejected, dim, domestic, domesticated, down in the mouth*, downcast, grave, low-key*, mellow*, neutral, repentant, restrained, sad, serious, sober, soft, solemn, submissive, subtle, tasteful, unobtrusive, chastened, hushed, inobtrusive, moderated, muted, out of spirits, repressed, shaded, softened, tempered, toned down |
| Antonyms: | boisterous, communicative, excited, talkative, uncontrolled, aroused, roused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lady's maid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal attendant |
| Synonyms: | abigail, companion, confidante, domestic, lady's attendant, lady-in-waiting, waiting woman |
| Main Entry: | maid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
| Synonyms: | au pair, cleaning woman, damsel, domestic, factotum, girl, help, miss, nursemaid, woman, biddy, chambermaid, cleaning lady, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, live-in, maidservant |
| Main Entry: | civil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | civic, community |
| Synonyms: | civilian, domestic, governmental, home, interior, local, municipal, national, political, public |
| Main Entry: | familiar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, well-known |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, commonplace, conventional, customary, domestic, everyday, frequent, habitual, homespun, household, humble, informal, intimate, known, matter-of-fact, mundane, native, natural, old hat, ordinary, plain, prosaic, proverbial, repeated, routine, simple, stock, unceremonious, unsophisticated, usual, wonted, garden variety, recognizable, workaday |
| Antonyms: | foreign, new, strange, uncommon, undistinguished, unfamiliar, unknown, unremarkable |
| Main Entry: | homely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary, comfortable |
| Synonyms: | comfy, cozy, domestic, everyday, familiar, friendly, homespun, homey, informal, modest, natural, plain, simple, snug, unaffected, unassuming, unpretentious, homelike, inelaborate, unostentatious, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | tame |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domesticated, compliant |
| Synonyms: | amenable, broken, civilized, docile, domestic, fearless, gentle, harmless, kindly, manageable, meek, mild, muzzled, obedient, overcome, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tractable, trained, unafraid, acclimatized, biddable, bridled, busted, cultivated, disciplined, gentle as a lamb, habituated, harnessed, housebroken, unresisting, yoked |
| Antonyms: | unmanageable, untamed, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | internecine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | involving conflict within a group |
| Synonyms: | civil, domestic, internal, fratricidal |
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