OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 11739

tame

/teɪm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
insulso • manso • soso
Not exciting.
For a thriller, that film was really tame.
This party is too tame for me.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 11740

tame

/teɪm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amansar • domar • domeñar
To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
He tamed the wild horse.
Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood,…