Other Definitions
tame (enc)
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Tame| Verb | 1. | tame - correct by punishment or disciplinealter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | | | 2. | tame - make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | | | 3. | tame - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"adapt, accommodate - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" | | | 4. | tame - overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" break in, break - make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern" domesticate, tame - 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" | | | 5. | tame - 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"adapt, accommodate - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" | | | Adj. | 1. | tame - flat and uninspiringunexciting - not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life" | | | 2. | tame - 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"quiet - characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity; "a quiet life"; "a quiet throng of onlookers"; "quiet peace-loving people"; "the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years" wild - marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild ideas"; "wild talk"; "wild originality"; "wild parties" | | | 3. | tame - brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"manipulable, tractable - easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler untamed, wild - in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants" | | | 4. | tame - very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughesdocile - willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" | |
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