Definition of tame

adjective (a)

• very restrained or quiet (adj.all)

  Antonym: wild
  

  Example:
  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.
  

  source: wordnet30
• brought from wildness into a domesticated state (adj.all)

  Synonym: tamed
  Antonym: untamed, wild
  

  Example:
  Tame animals.
  Fields of tame blueberries.
  

  source: wordnet30
• Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

• flat and uninspiring (adj.all)

  source: wordnet30
• very docile (adj.all)

  Synonym: meek
  

  Example:
  Tame obedience.
  

  source: wordnet30

verb (v)

• correct by punishment or discipline (verb.change)

  Synonym: chasten, subdue
  

  source: wordnet30
• make less strong or intense; soften (verb.communication)

  Synonym: moderate, tone down
  

  Example:
  The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements.
  

  source: wordnet30
• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment (verb.change)

  Synonym: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize
  

  Example:
  Tame the soil.
  

  source: wordnet30
• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable (verb.change)

  Synonym: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim
  

  Example:
  He tames lions for the circus.
  

  source: wordnet30
• make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans (verb.change)

  Synonym: domesticate
  

  Example:
  The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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