tamest

Adjective

tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)

1. Under human control.
2. Docile or tranquil towards humans.
   • The lion was quite tame.
3. (figuratively) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
   • What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
4. (obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
   • The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number of tame blacks about the schooner.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 290
5. Not exciting.
   • This party is too tame for me.

   Synonyms:

   dull, flat, insipid, unexciting

   Antonyms:

   exciting

6. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
   • tame slaves of the laborious plougha. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Paraphrase on the 148th Psalm

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