Englishtame
adjective
1 a tame elephant:
domesticated, domestic, not wild, docile, tamed, disciplined, broken, broken-in, trained, not fierce, gentle, mild, used to humans;
pet;
British house-trained;
North American housebroken.
▷antonyms wild, fierce.
2 a bunch of demoralized, tame civil servants always looking over their shoulders:
docile, submissive, compliant, meek, obedient, tractable, acquiescent, amenable, manageable, unresisting, passive, mild, subdued, under someone's control/thumb, suppressed, unassertive, ineffectual.
▷antonyms independent.
3 every businessman needs a tame lawyer at his elbow:
amenable, biddable, cooperative, available, willing.
▷antonyms uncooperative.
4 network TV on Saturday night is a pretty tame affair:
unexciting, uninteresting, uninspired, uninspiring, dull, bland, flat, insipid, spiritless, pedestrian, vapid, lifeless, dead, colourless, run-of-the-mill, mediocre, ordinary, prosaic, humdrum, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome;
harmless, safe, unobjectionable, inoffensive, mainstream;
informal wishy-washy.
▷antonyms exciting, adventurous.
verb
1 wild rabbits can be kept in captivity and eventually tamed:
domesticate, break, train, master, subdue, subjugate, bring to heel, enslave.
2 Christine had learned to tame her bad temper:
subdue, curb, control, calm, master, bring to heel, tone down, water down, moderate, mitigate, tranquillize, overcome, discipline, suppress, repress, mollify, humble, cow, pacify, mellow, mute, temper, soften, bridle, get the better of, get a grip on;
informal lick.
tame Oxford Dictionary of English