tame
/teɪm/ adjective B2- Under human control.
- Docile or tranquil towards humans. · The lion was quite tame.
- Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Not exciting. · This party is too tame for me.· For a thriller, that film was really tame.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Comparative tamer · Superlative tamest
From the library
“Is he tame?” asked the woman, opening the door a little wider.
One day by chance he found a tame Partridge for sale.
I suppose he’s so tame because we’ve been kind to him.”
“He laid a wager he would tame Médéah in the space of six months.
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