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Tame

teɪm

Tame definitions

adjective

Inflections:

tame tamer tamest

(of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated

"the fish are so tame you have to push them away"

Synonyms:
domesticated domestic not wild docile tamed disciplined broken broken-in trained not fierce gentle mild used to humans
- (of a person) willing to cooperate
  
  "every businessman needs a tame lawyer at his elbow"
not exciting, adventurous, or controversial

"network TV on Saturday night is a pretty tame affair"

Synonyms:
unexciting uninteresting uninspired uninspiring dull bland flat insipid spiritless pedestrian vapid lifeless dead colourless run-of-the-mill mediocre ordinary prosaic humdrum boring tedious tiresome wearisome
(of a plant) produced by cultivation

"a big field of tame hay"
- (of land) cultivated

verb

Inflections:

tame tamed tames taming