tame

IPA: tˈeɪm

A surname transferred from the nickname.
A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.

(transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
(intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
(transitive) To make gentle or meek.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
(chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
(figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
(obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
Not exciting.
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Examples of "tame" in Sentences

"It all depends upon what you call tame, Mr. Bramshaw," was the somewhat sarcastic reply.
At the farm in Middle Tennessee, they also had some chestnuts, which she called tame chestnuts.
They have one small, ugly, yellow-coloured bull, which they call tame, and which the _mozos_ ride familiarly.
Wild landscapes and wild weather, singly or together, create moments of great drama, exhilaration, liberation, even here in tame old Britain.
Sonika Singh started making hand-painted sneakers as gifts for friends at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif., embellishing them with what she calls "tame graffiti."
I love the over-the-top Beetlejuice-at-the-Ascot Gavotte statement gown (and hat!), and the ready-to-wear look, while relatively tame, is flattering, kicky, and still totally Mondo.
Before long he had become what we call tame -- that is to say, his wings had been clipped; he was allowed out of his cage, because he could no longer fly away, and he sang when he was told, because he was whipped if he did not.
In terms of the character of the master/journeyman/apprentice, what you get -- as a cost of removing writing from the hurly-burly world of rude market principles -- is a certain tame, politically correct liberalism (universally in effect throughout the American creative writing guild now), which makes appropriate, but extremely subdued, noises about political depredations.