Tame

Definition: Tame

Tame

Adjective

1. Flat and uninspiring.

2. Very restrained or quiet; "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".

3. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries".

4. Very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes.

Verb

1. Correct by punishment or discipline.

2. Make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements".

3. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil".

4. Overcome the wildness of (an animal); make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus".

5. Make (animals) fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tame" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Energy

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

TAME

TAME

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Synonyms: Tame

Excitability

Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Husbandry

Verb: tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle,. (restrain).

Adjective: pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Adjective: moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered; Verb: calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.

Physical Inertness

Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.

Subjection

Break in, tame; subject, subjugate; master; tread down, tread under foot; weigh down; drag at one's chariot wheels; reduce to subjection, reduce to slavery; enthrall, inthrall, bethrall; enslave, lead captive; take into custody; (restrain); rule; drive into a corner, hold at the sword's point; keep under; hold in bondage, hold in leading strings, hold in swaddling clothes.

Teaching

Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate).

Crosswords: Tame

Why waste yourself with beauty when you can tame the beast (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

You can't tame what's meant to be wild, doc. It just ain't natural (The Howling; writing credit: Gary Brandner; John Sayles)

Mighty armies cannot stop him! But one touch of my lips Yes, he captured me - but he cannot tame me (The Conqueror; writing credit: Oscar Millard)

Are something I just can't tame ("I Feel the Earth Move"; performing artist: Carole King)

That you can't tame (Stupid Girl; performing artist: Garbage)

Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart (Crash and Burn; performing artist: Savage Garden)

To tame your wild wild heart (Crash and Burn; performing artist: Savage Garden)

My dame hath a lame tame crane, my dame hath a crane that is lame. (references; author: unknown)

Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin. (references; author: unknown)

Jaci od tame (1961)

Iz tame u svjetlost (1947)

The Tame Cat (1921)

Wild Women and Tame Lions (1918)

A Tame Cat (1912)

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Books

• Bill Carey Rides West/the Town No Guns Could Tame [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Not a Tame God: Christ in the Writings of C.S. Lewis (reference)

• Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C.S. Lewis (Leaders in Action Series) (reference)

• The How-To of Great Speaking: Stage Techniques to Tame Those Butterflies (reference)

• To Tame a Highland Warrior (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Too Wild to Tame [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A "tame" coyote - party pet Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Play-fellows from the frozen Arctic--Eskimo youngsters and their tame bear, World's Fair, St. Louis, U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tame reindeer. Credit: Library of Congress.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This is especially true if the bat is acting strangely (unusually tame). (references)

But, if a bat acts tame, is on the ground, or is easily approached, it may have rabies. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

Ecuador's TAME airline (owned and operated by the Ecuadorian military) provides connections within the country and abroad. (references)

Romania

Among the most important components of economic reform are privatizing the country's industrial core (80 percent state owned), completing the privatization of state farms (10 percent of the country's agricultural land), completing the privatization of the banking system, and implementing tight fiscal and monetary policies to tame inflation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tame": be growing tame ♦ tame a tiger ♦ tame bear ♦ tame cat ♦ tame rabbit ♦ To tame away. Additional references.

Beginning with "tame": tame-spirited.

Albanian

zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, tenderize, tone down), i zbutur, i urtë (acquiescent, canny, compliant, docile, ductile, meek, mild, placable, prudent, quiet, sage, sapient, sapiential, silent, Solomon, still, sweet-tempered, wise), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, flabby, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تملك نفسه, ‏دجن (domesticate), ‏روض (break, break in, domesticate, gentle, manage, master, school, thaw, train), ‏أليف (domestic, domesticated, housebroken), ‏أنس (amiability, personify), ‏خالي من النكهة (savorless, savourless), ‏داجن (domestic, domesticated, familiar), ‏طوع, ‏كبح (arrest, bridle, check, contain, control, curb, hamper, hinder, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep back, keep down, keep under control, leash, master, press, prevent, rein, repress, repression, restrain, restraint, steady, subdual, subdue, suppress, suppression, withhold), ‏غير ممتع (insipid, prosaic), ‏وديع (facile, gentle, humble, meek, placid, quiet), ‏قهر (beat, compulsion, conquer, crush, defeat, defeating, force, get the better of, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, subdual, subdue, subjugate, subjugation, vanquish), ‏لين الطبع, ‏مروض (housebroken, trainer), ‏مذلل, ‏ذلل (overcome). (various references)

Blackfoot

ikkisstaa (to tame a horse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

правя скучен, дресиран (disciplined, performing, trained), питомен (civilized, domestic), подчинявам (bend, overmaster, overpower, prostrate, subdue, subject, subordinate, tie down, vanquish), послушен (amenable, biddable, gentle, good, governable, obedient, submissive, toward, tractable, unresisting), посредствен (indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, middling, moderate, ordinary, potty, run of the mill, second rate, tatty, undistinguished), дресирам (break in, discipline, train), правя безинтересен (blow on, impoverish), укротявам (break in, calm down, cow, manage, master, mollify, pacify, settle, subdue, twit), еднообразен (dead, flat, hack, humdrum, jogtrot, monotone, monotonous, tedious, unenlivened, unleavened, unvaried), опитомен (domesticated, tamed), опитомявам (break in, domesticate, gentle, reclaim), градински (garden), култивиран (cultivated, cultural, cultured, domesticated), смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, temper, turn, water down), правя банален. (various references)

Chinese 

馴服 , 馴 (attain gradually), 温驯. (various references)

Czech

uèesaný, potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress), ponížit (abase, debase, degrade, humble, humiliate), pokorný (humble, lowly, meek, submissive), poddajný (amenable, compliant, docile, floppy, lithe, meek, pliable, pliant, submissive, supple, yielding), ochoèit (domesticate), ochoèený (domesticated, house trained), mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, temperate, unruffled), krotký (docile, domesticated, gentle, quiet), krotit (constrain, curb, hamshackle, restrain), fádní (bloodless, drab, dreary, dull, featureless, flat, Gray, grey, humdrum, jejune, tasteless, tiresome), domácí (brownie, domestic, domiciliary, home, homegrown, homelike, homemade, home-made, indoor, inland, internal, native, vernacular), bezvýrazný (blank, characterless, dead pan, flabby, glassy, inexpressive, insipid, noncommittal, vapid). (various references)

Dutch

temmen (train), dresseren (break, breed, bring up, educate, raise, train), africhten (break, train). (various references)

Esperanto

malsovaĝigi, malsovaĝa, dresi (train). (various references)

Faeroese

temja (train), venja (breed, bring up, coach, educate, exercise, practise, raise, train). (various references)

Farsi 

خودمانی (Familiar, Hailfellow, Hobnob, Homey, Insider, Intimate, Pally, Unihibit, Unihibited), اهلی (Aborigine, Domestic, Native), رام (Docile, Domestic, Inward, Manageable, Meek, Obedient), راه کردن , بیمزه (Arid, Colourless, Vapid), بیروح (Arid, Exanimate, Inert, Meek, Pedestrian, Vapid). (various references)

Finnish

taltuttaa (calm, check, make subside, quiet), koulia (train), kesyttää (domesticate), kesy (domestic). (various references)

French

dresser, apprivoiser, apprivoisé. (various references)

Frisian

nuet, ôfrjochtsje (break, train). (various references)

German

zahm (domesticated, gentle, obedient, tamely), zähmen (control, domesticate, to domesticate), bändigen (bring under control, harness, keep down, master, quell, restrain, subdue, train). (various references)

Greek 

εξημερώνω (civilize, domesticate), ήμερησ, τιθασεύω (domesticate), δαμάζω (break, discipline, overpower, quell, subdue). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאולף (housebroken, trained), מבוית (domesticated, house trained, housebroken), לאלף (acquire knowledge, learn, teach, train), לבית (domesticate), ציתן (docile, dutiful, obedient), נכנע (docile, servile, submissive). (various references)

Hungarian

szelíd (benign, biddable, bland, gentle, lenient, light, meek, milky, placid, quiet, subdued, sweet, sweet-tempered), házi (domestic, domiciliary, family, home, home grown, home-made, indoor, in-house). (various references)

Indonesian

jinak (docile). (various references)

Italian

noioso (annoying, boring, dull, humdrum, onerous, pesky, prosy, slow, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, workaday, worrisome), mansueto (docile, gentle, lamblike, meek, mild), insulso (dull, flat, insipid, unintelligently, vapid), domestico (domestic, footman, gyp, home, homebred, homely, household, man, manservant, menial, servant), domare (bend, break, quell), docile (amenable, biddable, docile, governable, lamblike, meek, soft, tractable, workable), addomesticare (domesticate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

馴れた (domesticated), 人馴れ (used to people), 温順 (docile). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おんじゅん (docile), なれた (domesticated, experienced, familiar, practiced), ひとなれ (used to people). (various references)

Korean 

길드는 (tamer, Tamest). (various references)

Manx

neuvioyr (flat, flat mood, inactive, listless, moribund, run-down, spiritless), meeinaghey (abate; amelioration, abatement, allay, alleviate, alleviation, assuagement, domestication, moderate, soften, taming), beasaghey (civilize, submit). (various references)

Papiamen

mansu, manso. (various references)

Pig Latin

ametay.(various references)

Portuguese

manso (gentle, lamblike, meek, mild, pet), domesticado (housebroken, house-trained, pet), domar (break in, gentle, manage, rough, train), doméstico (domestic, pet), amansar (break in, gentle, rough, train). (various references)

Romanian

dresa (educate, enter, school, train). (various references)

Russian 

усмирять , ручной; укрощённый, ручной (domestic, hand, handheld, manual, pencil-and-paper, pet), прирученный (domesticated), покорный (acquiescent, humble, obedient, resigned, submissive). (various references)

Scottish

soitheamh (affable, docile, tractable), sùmhail (close-packed, peaceable, tidily tied up), ceannsaich (conquer, keep under, quell, subdue), calla, callda, ainnighte. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukrotiti (tone down), pripitomiti (domesticate, reclaim), pitom (cultivated, docile), otrcan (commonplace, corny, hackneyed, outworn, shabby, stale, threadbare, trite, well worn), krotak (meek). (various references)

Spanish

manso (bellwether, gentle, mattress, meek, mild), domesticado (domesticated, housebroken), domar (break, break in, bust), domado (tamed), adiestrar (break, train). (various references)

Swedish

tam (domestic, lame, milk and water), tämja (bust, curb, domesticate, harness), matt (depressed, dim, dull, dusty, faint, faintly, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, lacklustre, languid, lustreless, mat, weak, wishy washy). (various references)

Thai

เพาะปลูกพืช, ทำให้อ่อนน้อม, ทำให้จืดชืด, ควบคุม (boss, dictate, head, hold in, husband, keep, lead, rein, ride), ขี้ขลาด (chicken, chickenhearted, chicken-hearted, coward, cowardly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, pusillanimous). (various references)

Turkish

tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), yumuşatmak (attemper, chasten, dulcify, limber up, loosen, mellow, melt, moderate, mollify, mute, relax, season, shake up, smooth, soft pedal, soften, supple, unbend, unman), uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, toward, tractable, yielding), uslu (docile, good, quiet, sedate, squeezable, well-behaved), uslandırmak, işlemek (brake, brand, commit, cultivate, discourse, engrave, farm, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, hammer, handle, indwell, instil, instill, operate, penetrate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, till, travel, treat, work), evcilleştirmek (domesticate, housebreak, reclaim), evcil (domestic, domesticated, housebroken, pet), ekmek (bread, bread and butter, broadcast, crop, inseminate, loaf, plant, set, set out, sow, sprinkle), ekili (cultivated, planted, sown), ehlileştirmek, ehli (domestic, domesticated), cesaretini kırmak (be a disincentive to, dash, daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, enervate, screw up one's courage, unman, unnerve). (various references)

Turkmen 

eldek, ekdi. (various references)

Ukrainian

смиряти, культурний (accomplished, arable, civilized, cultivated, cultural, cultured), одомашнювати, одомашнений, нецікавий (arid, incurious, uninteresting), безпечний (canny, permissible, safe, secure, wholesome), підкорятися (bow, comply, conform, knuckle down, knuckle under, obey, submit), приручений (gentle), приручатися, приручати (charm, domesticate, gentle), покірний (acquiesced, acquiescent, benign, duteous, lamblike, meek, obedient, obediential, obeisant, prideless, resigned, submissive). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô vị (arid, banal, drily, dry, dryasdust, dryly, dusty, insipid, milk and water, platitudinarian, platitudinous, savourless, tasteless, unsavoury, watery), dễ bảo (docile, meek, obedient, obsequious, tractable), buồn tẻ (dead-alive, drab, dryasdust, dull, dully, heavy, humdrum, inanimate, jogtrot, ponderous, toneless, waste), đã thuần hoá, đã dạy thuần lành. (various references)

Welsh

swci (pet), llywaeth (hand-fed, pet), gwa+r (gentle), dofi (appease, assuage, domesticate), dof (domesticated, garden). (various references)

Yucatec

suk. (various references)

cicur, cicurare, domantur, domare, domat, domate, domatis, domita, domo, domui, mansuetabatur, mansueti, mansuetis, mansuetorum, mansuetos, mansuetum, mansuetus, mollis, molliti, mollivit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tame": tameable, tamed, tamein, tameins, tameless, tamely, tameness, tamenesses, tamer, tamers, tames, tamest. (additional references)

Words ending with "tame": aspartame, overtame, untame. (additional references)

Words containing "tame": aspartames, catamenia, catamenial, entameba, entamebae, entamebas, heptameter, heptameters, hereditament, hereditaments, intertestamental, lentamente, metamer, metamere, metameres, metameric, metamerically, metamerism, metamerisms, metamers, nonmetameric, octameter, octameters, pentamerous, pentameter, pentameters, portamenti, portamento, portamentos, putamen, rotameter, rotameters, stamen, stamens, testament, testamentary, testaments, untamed, vitamer, vitamers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tame" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atame, atem, atma, atme, Atmel, etame, etime, otamy, ptfma, taam, tabe, tabmet, tafe, tage, taim, taje, taman, tamb, tamen, tameo, Tamez, tami, tammi, Tamo, tamt, Tamtec, tamu, tane, tani, taqe, taum, tauma, tave, tawe, tawm, taxe, taye, tbam, Tdma, teame, teane, tema, temeo, temi, Temne, Temo, thame, tiem, tima, timeo, timet, timj, timme, Timmo, timo, Titma, t'men, tmi, tomae, tomay, tomee, tomeh, tomey, tomi, tomie, tomme, tomwe, tqm, trame, Tramen, tume, tumi, tvam, tyae, tyme, tzane. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mate, meat, meta, team.

-1 letter: ate, eat, eta, mae, mat, met, tae, tam, tea.

-2 letters: ae, am, at, em, et, ma, me, ta.

+1 letter: ament, armet, etyma, mated, mater, mates, matey, matte, meant, meats, meaty, menta, metal, ramet, satem, steam, tamed, tamer, tames, teams.

+2 letters: acetum, aments, amulet, anthem, armets, armlet, batmen, bemata, camlet, comate, demast, dreamt, etamin, gamest, gamete, hamate, hamlet, hetman, humate, imaret, inmate, jetsam, lament, lamest, magnet, malate, mallet, malted, mammet, mantel, mantes, mantle, market, marted, marten, masted, master, maters, mateys, matres, matted, matter, mattes, mature, maumet, mayest, meatal, meated, meatus, mental, metage, metals, metate, metepa, misate, miseat, moated, muleta, mutase, mutate, omenta, ramate, ramets, ramjet, remate, reteam, samite, samlet, stamen, steams, steamy, stemma, stream, tamale, tamein, tamely, tamers, tamest, tammie, tamped, tamper, tandem, taxeme, taxmen, teamed, tramel, untame.