1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state
   "fields of tame blueberries"; "tame animals";
   - tamed
    
2. Very docile
   "tame obedience";
   - meek
    
3. Very restrained or quiet
   "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"
    
4. Flat and uninspiring
   "The tame presentation failed to engage the audience"

1. Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
   "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog";
   - domesticate
    
2. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
   "He tames lions for the circus";
   - domesticate, domesticize, domesticise [Brit], reclaim
    
3. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   "tame the soil";
   - domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise [Brit]
    
4. Make less strong or intense; soften
   "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements";
   - tone down, moderate
    
5. Correct by punishment or discipline
   "The strict teacher tamed the unruly class";
   - chasten, subdue

Derived forms: tamer, tamed, taming, tames, tamest

See also: broken, broken in, cultivated, docile, domestic, domesticated, domestication, gentle, manipulable, manipulatable, quiet, subdued, tamed, tameness, tractable, unexciting

Type of: accommodate, adapt, alter, change, modify

Antonym: untamed, wild

Encyclopedia: Tame, David