Meaning

7 senses
  1. Under human control.

  2. Docile or tranquil towards humans.

    The lion was quite tame.

    very docile

  3. (figuratively)Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.

  4. Not exciting.

    This party is too tame for me.

    For a thriller, that film was really tame.

    zahm

    приручённыйpriručónnyj, ручно́йručnój

  5. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

  6. Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

  7. (obsolete)Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.

Examples

52 sentences
  1. Can you help me tame this horse?

    deKannst du mir helfen, dieses Pferd zu zähmen? — Waldelfe

  2. Tom caught a wolf and tried to tame it.

    ruТом поймал волка и попытался приручить его. — odexed

  3. The birds are so tame they will eat from your hand.

    ruЭти птицы такие ручные, что будут есть с твоей руки. — Ooneykcall

    deDie Vögel sind so zahm, sie werden dir aus der Hand fressen. — riotlake

  4. This lion is very tame.

    ruЭтот лев очень смирный. — Wezel

    deDieser Löwe ist sehr zahm. — Luiaard

  5. You can't tame a wolf.

    ruВы не можете приручить волка. — odexed

    deEinen Wolf kann man nicht zähmen. — jakov

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
not wild:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
not wild:

Origin

From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old

From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”).

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Forms

tamer, tamest
Comparativetamer Lesson
Superlativetamest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • brought from wildness into a domesticated state:tamed
  • very docile:meek

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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