English Dictionary

tame

/teɪm/

adj

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.

The lion in the zoo is tame and friendly.

意味（1）

Not or no longer wild; domesticated.

They have a tame wildcat.

意味（2）

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

The lion was quite tame.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（5）

Not exciting.

This party is too tame for me.

意味（6）

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

tame slaves of the laborious plough

意味（7）

(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.