tame

English

Dogs and sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated.

Etymology

From Old English tam

Pronunciation

• IPA: teɪm

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

Adjective

tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)

1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated

   They have a tame wildcat.

2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact

   The lion was quite tame.

3. Not exciting

   This party is too tame for me.

4. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Synonyms

• (not exciting): dull, insipid

Antonyms

• (not wild): wild
• (mild and well-behaved): gentle
• (not exciting): exciting
• (mathematics): wild

Derived terms

• tamely
• tameness

Translations

not wild

Arabic: اليف (’alí:f) Armenian: ընտանի (hy) (ëntani) Chinese: 馴服的, 驯服的 (xúnfúde) Croatian: pitom (hr) m. Czech: krotký (cs) m. Danish: tam (da) Dutch: tam (nl) Filipino: maamo Finnish: kesy (fi) French: apprivoisé (fr) German: zahm (de) Hungarian: szelíd (hu) Indonesian: jinak (id)

Italian: addomesticato (it) Japanese: なれた (nareta) Korean: 길들인 (gildeurin) Meänkieli: alju Norwegian: tam (no) Polish: oswojony (pl) m. Portuguese: domesticado (pt) Russian: приручённый (ru) (priručónnyj) Scottish Gaelic: ceannsaichte (gd) Spanish: domesticado (es), manso (es) m. Swedish: tam (sv) Telugu: మచ్చిక (maccika)

Verb

tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

1. (transitive) to make something tame

   He tamed the wild horse.

2. (intransitive) to become tame

Derived terms

• tamer

Translations

to make something tame

Armenian: ընտելացնել (hy) (ëntelac’nel) Croatian: pripitomiti (hr) Czech: krotit (cs) Danish: tæmme (da) Dutch: temmen (nl) Finnish: kesyttää (fi) French: apprivoiser (fr), domestiquer (fr), dompter (fr) German: zähmen (de) Indonesian: menjinakkan (id) Italian: addomesticare (it)

Korean: 길들이다 (ko) (gildeurida) Norwegian: temme (no) Polish: oswajać (pl) Portuguese: domar (pt) Russian: прируча́ть (ru) (priručát') impf., приручи́ть (ru) (priručít') Scottish Gaelic: ceannsaich (gd), callaich (gd) Spanish: amansar (es) Swedish: tämja (sv)

to become tame

Armenian: ընտելանալ (hy) (ëntelanal) Finnish: kesyyntyä (fi) German: zahm werden Italian: addomesticato (it) m. Korean: 길들다 (ko) (gildeulda)

Norwegian: temmes (no) Portuguese: ser domado, domar-se Russian: прируча́ться (ru) (priručát'sja) impf., приручи́ться (ru) (priručít'sja) pf.

External links

• Tame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mate, maté
• meat
• meta, Meta
• team

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Swedish

Adjective

tame

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of tam.