Thuần, đã thuần hoá (thú rừng..)

a tame monkey

một con khỉ đã thuần hoá

(đùa cợt) lành, dễ bảo; phục tùng (người)

Đã trồng trọt (đất)

Bị chế ngự, bị thuần phục

Tẻ, nhạt nhẽo, vô vị

a tame basket-ball match

một trận đấu bóng rổ buồn tẻ

a tame story

một câu chuyện nhạt nhẽo

Dạy cho thuần, thuần hoá; làm cho quen, làm cho không sợ người

to tame wild birds

thuần hoá chim rừng

Chế ngự, làm cho quy phục, thuần phục

Tamed, docile, disciplined, obedient, domesticated,house-broken, trained, broken: He used to keep a tame fox inhis back garden.

Mild, gentle, fearless, unafraid: It isamazing how tame animals can be when they do not perceive man asa 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 tameto defy Kate.

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, theplace is much too tame for my tastes.

V.

Break, domesticate, train, house-train, gentle, master,subdue, subjugate: The brown bear is a most difficult animal totame.

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 craftwas allowed to continue.

Adj.

(of an animal) domesticated; not wild orshy.

Insipid; lacking spirit or interest; dull (tameacquiescence).

(of a person) amenable and available.

US a(of land) cultivated. b (of a plant) produced by cultivation.

V.tr.

Make tame; domesticate; break in.

Subdue, curb,humble; break the spirit of.

Tamely adv. tameness n. tamern. (also in comb.). [OE tam f. Gmc]