Tame

Pronunciation

• IPA: teɪm
• Rhymes: -eɪm

From Old English tam

Full definition of tame

Adjective

1. Not or no longer wild; domesticatedThey have a tame wildcat.
2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contactThe lion was quite tame.
3. Not excitingThis party is too tame for me.For a thriller, that film was really tame.
4. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
• Roscommontame slaves of the laborious plough
5. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Synonyms

• (not exciting) dull, insipid

Antonyms

• (not wild) wild
• (mild and well-behaved) gentle
• (not exciting) exciting
• (mathematics) wild

Derived terms

• tamely
• tameness

Verb

1. (transitive) to make something tameHe tamed the wild horse.
2. (intransitive) to become tame

Derived terms

• tamer

Compare French entamer ("to cut into, to broach").

Verb

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
• FullerIn the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.

Anagrams

• mate, maté
• meat
• meta, Meta
• team