tame

1. 1.

   flat and uninspiring

   Similarunexciting
2. 2.

   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”

   Antonymswild

   Similarsubdued
3. 3.

   brought from wildness into a domesticated state

   “tame animals”

   “fields of tame blueberries”

   Synonymstamed

   Antonymswild

   Similarbrokencultivateddociledomestictamed
4. 4.

   very docile

   “tame obedience”

   “meek as a mouse”

   Synonymsmeek

   Similardocile

Other forms of tame

past tense

tamed·

present participle

taming·

third person

tames·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tame

What does tame mean?

tame means "correct by punishment or discipline". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tame?

tame has 1 syllable: tame. In IPA it is /ˈteɪm/.

What is another word for tame?

Close synonyms include chasten, subdue, tone down, moderate, domesticate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of tame?

The recorded antonyms are wild, wild.

Is tame a common word?

tame is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tame?

1 word rhymes with tame. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.