adjective, verb
adjective (tamer, tamest)
1 (of animals, birds, etc.) not afraid of people, and used to living with them:
The bird became so tame that it was impossible to release it back into the wild.
OPPWILD
2 (informal) not interesting or exciting:
You'll find life here pretty tame after New York.
3 (informal) (of a person) willing to do what other people ask:
I have a tame doctor who'll always give me a sick note when I want a day off.
tamely adverb:
She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
tameness noun [U]
verb [VN] to make sth tame or easy to control:
Lions can never be completely tamed. * She made strenuous efforts to tame her anger.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tame is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does tame appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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