Tame
[teɪm]
Definition
(verb.) correct by punishment or discipline.
(adj.) flat and uninspiring .
(adj.) brought from wildness into a domesticated state; 'tame animals'; 'fields of tame blueberries' .
(adj.) 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' .
Checker: Virgil--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
(superl.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
(superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
(superl.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
(a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
(a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Domesticated, domestic, mild, gentle, docile, not wild.[2]. Subdued, crushed, submissive.[3]. Spiritless, dull, flat, feeble, lean, vapid, insipid, jejune, barren, languid, prosing, prosy, prosaic, uninteresting, poor.
v. a. [1]. Domesticate, make tame, make docile.[2]. Subdue, repress, conquer, overcome, overthrow, subjugate.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Domesticated, reclaimed, tamed, subjugated, broken, gentle, mild, docile, meek,spiritless, tedious, dull, flat
ANT:Undomesticated, unreclaimed, untamed, unbroken, savage, wild, fierce, spirited,animated, ferine, interesting, exciting, stirring, lively
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Definition
adj. having lost native wildness and shyness: domesticated: gentle: spiritless: without vigour: dull flat uninspiring: wonted accustomed.—v.t. to reduce to a domestic state: to make gentle: to reclaim: to civilise.—ns. Tāmabil′ity Tāmeabli′ity Tām′ableness Tāme′ableness.—adjs. Tām′able Tāme′able that may be tamed; Tāme′less.—n. Tāme′lessness.—adv. Tāme′ly.—ns. Tāme′ness; Tā′mer one who tames.
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Examples
- The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- That may be true, but it is no reason for being bullied by it into a tame admission that what has always been must always be. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- How did Mr. Jaggers tame her, Wemmick? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Something to tame first, and teach afterwards; to break in, and then to fondle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- See, Jo, how tame it is. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Yes; but not only that, said Wemmick, she went into his service immediately after her acquittal, tamed as she is now. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have tamed that savage stenographic mystery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But even if they tamed the horse, it is still more doubtful whether they rode it or had much use for it when it was tamed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She has since been taught one thing and another in the way of her duties, but she was tamed from the beginning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Wild terror of the sky above, Glide tamed and dumb below! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Marriage is a taming thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At once powerful and elusive, it remained for Professor Morse to capture this wild steed, and, taming it, place it in the permanent service of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Only a rough sketch of Laurie taming a horse. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of taming. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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