Tame

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
  • adj. Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame” ( Peter Matthiessen).
  • adj. Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.
  • adj. Insipid; flat: a tame Christmas party.
  • adj. Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.
  • v. To make tractable; domesticate.
  • v. To subdue or curb.
  • v. To tone down; soften.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated
  • adj. Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
  • adj. Not exciting
  • adj. Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  • v. to make something tame
  • v. to become tame
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  • adj. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic.
  • adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • adj. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid.
  • v. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate.
  • v. To subdue; to conquer; to repress.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Reclaimed from wildness, savagery, or barbarism.
  • Of beasts, birds, etc.: Reclaimed from the feral condition or state of nature for the use or benefit of man; not wild; domesticated; made tractable.
  • Having lost or not exhibiting the usual characteristics of a wild animal, as ferocity, fear of man, and shyness: as, a tame wild cat; the wild ducks are quite tame this season; the bear seemed very tame.
  • Cultivated; improved: noting land, vegetable products, etc.
  • Submissive; spiritless; pusillanimous.
  • Sluggish; languid; dull; lacking earnestness, fervor, or ardor.
  • Deficient in interesting or striking qualities; uninspiring; insipid; flat: as, a tame description.
  • Ineffectual; impotent; inert.
  • Accommodated to one's habits; wonted; accustomed.
  • Feeble, vapid, prosy, prosaic.
  • To reclaim from a wild or savage state; overcome the natural ferocity or shyness of; make gentle and tractable; domesticate; break in, as a wild beast or bird.
  • To subdue; curb; reduce to submission.
  • To destroy; kill.
  • To deprive of courage, spirit, ardor, or animation.
  • To make subdued in color or luster; soften; relieve; tone down.
  • To open; broach.
  • To divide; deal out; formerly, to cut; carve.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. very restrained or quiet
  • v. correct by punishment or discipline
  • adj. very docile
  • adj. flat and uninspiring
  • v. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
  • adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state
  • v. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
  • v. make less strong or intense; soften
  • v. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
  • Equivalent
    subdued    docile    unexciting    broken    domesticated    broken in    gentle    cultivated    domestic    tamed   
    Antonym
    wild    gentle    insipid    dull   
    Verb Form
    tamed    tamely    tameness    tames    taming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter    accommodate    adapt   
    Cross Reference
    submissive    commonplace    dull    subdue    tame hay   
    Form
    tameness    tamely    tamer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    divide    distribute    meek    gentle    mild    domesticated    domestic    crushed    subdued    depressed   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ame    Boehme    Graeme    Mayme    Sejm    acclaim    aflame    aim    ashame    ballgame   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    docile    timid    harmless    hungry    stupid    dull    uninteresting    full-grown    peaceful    trivial