tame
US: /ˈteɪm/
UK: /tˈeɪm/
UK: /tˈeɪm/
English Vietnamese dictionary
tame /teim/
- tính từ
- đã thuần hoá, đã dạy thuần
- a tame monkey: một con khỉ đã dạy thuần
- lành, dễ bảo, nhu mì
- a very tame animal: một con vật rất lành
- đã trồng trọt (đất)
- bị chế ngự
- nhạt, vô vị, buồn tẻ
- a tame basket-ball match: một trận đấu bóng rổ buồn tẻ
- a tame story: một câu chuyện nhạt nhẽo
- đã thuần hoá, đã dạy thuần
- ngoại động từ
- dạy cho thuần, thuần hoá; làm cho không sợ người, làm cho dạn
- tiger is hard to tame: hổ khó dạy cho thuần
- chế ngự, làm cho quy phục, làm cho (nhuệ khí, tinh thần...) nhụt đi
- dạy cho thuần, thuần hoá; làm cho không sợ người, làm cho dạn
- nội động từ
- dạn đi, quen đi
- trở nên nhạt nhẽo, trở nên vô vị
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, verb
+ adjective (tamer, tamest)
1 (of animals, birds, etc.) not afraid of people, and used to living with them: The bird became so tame that it was impossible to release it back into the wild.
Antonym: WILD
2 (informal) not interesting or exciting: You'll find life here pretty tame after New York.
3 (informal) (of a person) willing to do what other people ask: I have a tame doctor who'll always give me a sick note when I want a day off.
tamely adverb: She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
tameness noun [U]
+ verb [VN] to make sth tame or easy to control: Lions can never be completely tamed. + She made strenuous efforts to tame her anger.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 tamed, docile, disciplined, obedient, domesticated, house-broken, trained, broken:
He used to keep a tame fox in his back garden.
2 mild, gentle, fearless, unafraid:
It is amazing how tame animals can be when they do not perceive man as a threat.
3 tractable, pliant, compliant, meek, submissive, mild, under (someone's) control or thumb, subdued, suppressed; unassertive, feeble, ineffectual, timid, timorous, cowardly, pusillanimous, chicken-hearted, faint-hearted, white-livered, lily-livered, yellow, Colloq wimpish:
Charles is far too tame to defy Kate.
4 boring, tedious, tiresome, dull, insipid, bland, lifeless, flat, vapid, prosaic, humdrum, bland, unexciting, uninspired, uninspiring, run-of-the-mill, ordinary, uninteresting, dead, Colloq wishy-washy:
As a nightclub, the place is much too tame for my tastes.
v.
5 break, domesticate, train, house-train, gentle, master, subdue, subjugate:
The brown bear is a most difficult animal to tame.
6 calm, subdue, control, mollify, pacify, mute, temper, soften, curb, tone down, moderate, mitigate, tranquillize:
After a week the Lord tamed the violent sea and our tiny craft was allowed to continue.
Collocation dictionary
1 not afraid of people
VERBS
be, look, seem | become
ADV.
extremely, very | almost | quite
2 boring
VERBS
appear, be, look, seem, sound | become | find sth
I found office work very tame after army life.
ADV.
positively, very
living a life that makes Wild West movies look positively tame
| a bit, a little, pretty, rather, somewhat
To us it was all pretty tame stuff.
Concise English dictionary
tames|tamed|taming|tamer|tamestteɪm
verb
+correct by punishment or discipline
+make less strong or intense; soften
+adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
+overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
+make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
adj.
+flat and uninspiring
+very restrained or quiet
+brought from wildness into a domesticated state
+very docile
