Entry Word: tame

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 changed from the wild state so as to become useful and obedient to humans <every evening, a Canada goose is at the food trough with our tame geese>

Synonyms domestic, domesticated, tamed

Related Words broken, housebroken, trained; docile, gentle

Near Antonyms unbroken, untrained

Antonyms feral, nondomesticated, undomesticated, untamed, wild

2 causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest <that action movie was so tame I fell asleep about 20 minutes into it> — see boring