tame | (adjective) brought from wildness into a domesticated state | Synonyms: tamed |
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(adjective) very restrained or quiet | - |
(adjective) very docile | Synonyms: meek |
(adjective) flat and uninspiring | - |
(verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: chasten, subdue |
(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize |
(verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: domesticate |
(verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim |
(verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: moderate, tone down |
tameable | (adjective) capable of being tamed | Synonyms: tamable |
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tamed | (adjective) brought from wildness into a domesticated state | Synonyms: tame |
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(adjective) brought from wildness | - |
tamely | (adverb) in a tame manner | - |
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tameness | (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: domestication |
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(noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness |
tamer | (noun) an animal trainer who tames wild animals | - |
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