tame

Speech parts

1. tame - Adjective

2. tame - Verb

4. tame - Adjective Satellite

5. Tame - Proper noun

Meaning

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

meek chasten moderate mild gentle cultivate reclaim subdue tamed domesticate naturalize tone down naturalise prissy wrangler
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Antonyms

wild savage strong active amazing electric
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Hypernyms

change accommodate alter modify adapt

Hyponyms

break break in

Phrases with the word

pudding and tame tame horses tame spaniel tame dame tame racing driver tame scenery

Derivatives

tamed taming

Anagrams

mate meat team AEMT Atem meta Tema

Examples

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul. John Chrysostom

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. John Climacus

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. Bryan Procter

A wild goose never reared a tame gosling. Irish Proverb

Age and marriage tame the beast. Haitian Proverb

The savage ox grows tame on strange ground. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

tamburo piccolo Tamburrino Tamburro tame dame tame horses tame human