Dictionary Definition
tame adj
1 flat and uninspiring
2 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" [ant:
wild]
3 brought from wildness into a domesticated
state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: tamed] [ant: wild]
4 very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a
mouse"- Langston Hughes [syn: meek]
Verb
2 make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down
that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his
potentially offensive statements" [syn: tone down,
moderate]
3 adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the
environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise]
4 overcome the wildness of; make docile and
tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn:
domesticate,
domesticize,
domesticise,
reclaim]
5 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" [syn: domesticate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
tamPronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪm
Adjective
Translations
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 馴服的, 驯服的 (xúnfúde)
- Czech: krotký
- Dutch: tam
- Filipino: maamo
- Finnish: kesy
- French: domestique
- German: zahm
- Hungarian: szelíd
- Italian: addomesticato
- Japanese: なれた (nareta)
- Korean: 길들인 (gildeurin)
- Portuguese: domesticado
- Russian: приручённый (priručónnyj)
- Spanish: domesticado
- Swedish: tam
- Telugu: మచ్చిక (maccika)
Antonyms
Translations
to make something tame
- Czech: krotit
- Finnish: kesyttää
- German: zähmen
- Italian: addomesticare
- Portuguese: domar
to become tame
Extensive Definition
Tame may refer to:
- Taming, the act of domesticating wild animals
- River Tame, Greater Manchester
- River Tame, West Midlands and the Tame Valley
- Tame, Arauca, a Colombian town and municipality
- Rio Tame, a river in northeastern Colombia
- "Tame", a song by the Pixies from their 1989 album Doolittle
- TAME (IATA code: EQ), an airline that belongs to the Ecuadorian military T.A.M.E
tame in German: Tame
tame in Spanish: Tame
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abate,
abeyant, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, allay, alleviate, amenable, apathetic, assuage, attemper, bank the fire,
bed, bed down, biddable, bland, blunt, boring, break, break in, break to harness,
bridle, broken, brush, bust, busted, calm, case harden, cataleptic, catatonic, chasten, chastened, compliant, condition, confirm, constrain, control, cowardly, curb, curry, currycomb, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, dead, deaden, diminish, disciplined, docile, domestic, domesticate, domesticated, domesticize, domiciliate, dopey, dormant, dovelike, downplay, drench, dull, establish, extenuate, familiarize, fearless, feeble, feed, fix, flat, fodder, foul, gentle, groggy, groom, habituate, handle, harden, harness, heavy, hitch, house-train, housebreak, housebroken, humble, humdrum, in abeyance, in
suspense, inactive,
ineffectual,
inert, insipid, inure, judicious, keep within bounds,
lamblike, languid, languorous, latent, lay, leaden, lenify, lessen, lifeless, lighten, lily-livered, litter, logy, manage, master, meek, mild, mild as milk, milk, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, mute, naturalize, nonviolent, obedient, obtund, ordinary, orient, orientate, pacific, pacifistic, pacify, palliate, passive, peaceable, peaceful, phlegmatic, play down,
pliable, pliant, prosaic, prudent, pusillanimous, quiet, reduce, reduce the temperature,
restrain, rub down,
run-of-the-mill, saddle,
season, sedentary, slack, slacken, sleeping, slow down, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, smother, sober, sober down, soft, soften, stagnant, standing, static, stifle, subdue, subdued, subjugate, submissive, suppress, suppressed, suspended, tamed, tedious, temper, temperate, tend, timid, timorous, tiresome, tone down, torpid, tractable, train, trained, tune down, unafraid, unaroused, unassertive, underplay, unexciting, uninspired, uninteresting, vapid, water, weaken, white-livered,
wishy-washy, wont, yellow, yoke