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Not or no longer wild; domesticated. / (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. / (figuratively) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.

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tame

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Source Word

tame

IPA(Pronunciation)

/teɪm/

Adjective

of animals figuratively obsolete of a knot

Not or no longer wild; domesticated. / (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. / (figuratively) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.

Japanese Meaning

飼い慣らされた; 野生ではなく、人によって飼育された状態（家畜化された） / おとなしい; 動物が人間に馴れておとなしく振る舞う状態、または人に対して穏やかで従順な様子 / 極端でなく、穏健な（人の意見や行動が）控えめな状態

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The once fierce wolf became tame after months of patient care.

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かつて凶暴だったオオカミは、数か月に及ぶ辛抱強い世話の後で飼いならされた。

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Not or no longer wild; domesticated.

They have a tame wildcat.

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(chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.

The lion was quite tame.

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(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.

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(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.

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