tame

adj

1. domesticated, tamed, broken, broken to harness, Sl. busted; trained, housebroken; (all of wild animals) gentle, fearless, unafraid.

2. docile, submissive, tractable, unresisting; meek, subdued, in harness, henpecked, tied to [s.o.'s] apron strings, under [s.o.'s] thumb, at [s.o.'s] beck and call.

3. dull, uninteresting, flat, insipid, inane, vapid, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah, Sl. for the birds; tedious, boring, boresome, dry, dry-as-dust, spiritless, lifeless, Sl. dead; commonplace, run-of-the-mill, Inf. old hat.

4. weak, pusillanimous, timorous, timid, fearful, afraid of one's own shadow; unmanly, faint-hearted, weak-hearted, lily-livered, with a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken-livered, Inf. pantywaist, Inf. yellow, Sl. yellow-bellied, Sl. candy-assed.

v

5. domesticate, gentle, break, Sl. bust; subdue, master, overcome; train, housebreak.

6. soften, tone down, moderate, modulate, mitigate, temper, lighten, ease up on; mollify, ameliorate, assuage; calm, stabilize, tranquilize, pacify.

7. harness, control, get under control, put to use.