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Noun: tamer  tey-mu(r)
  1. An animal trainer who tames wild animals
    "The circus tamer worked patiently to gain the trust of the lions"
Adjective: tame (tamer,tamest)  teym
  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"

Derived forms: tamers

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

Type of: animal trainer, handler

Antonym: untamed, wild

Encyclopedia: Tamer, Iran

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