tame
adjective
[ teɪm ]
• (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated.
• "the fish are so tame you have to push them away"
Similar:
domesticated,
domestic,
not wild,
docile,
tamed,
disciplined,
broken,
broken-in,
trained,
not fierce,
gentle,
mild,
used to humans,
pet,
house-trained,
housebroken,
• not exciting, adventurous, or controversial.
• "network TV on Saturday night is a pretty tame affair"
Similar:
unexciting,
uninteresting,
uninspired,
uninspiring,
dull,
bland,
flat,
insipid,
spiritless,
pedestrian,
vapid,
lifeless,
dead,
colourless,
run-of-the-mill,
mediocre,
ordinary,
prosaic,
humdrum,
boring,
tedious,
tiresome,
wearisome,
harmless,
safe,
unobjectionable,
inoffensive,
mainstream,
wishy-washy,
• (of a plant) produced by cultivation.
• "a big field of tame hay"
tame
verb
• domesticate (an animal).
• "wild rabbits can be kept in captivity and eventually tamed"
Origin:
Old English tam (adjective), temmian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tam and German zahm, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin domare and Greek daman ‘tame, subdue’.
