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1tame Listen to audio/ˈteɪm/ adjective
tam·er; tam·est
[also more tame; most tame] 1 a : not wild : trained to obey people
a tame elephant
b : not afraid of people
The island's birds are quite tame.
2 : not exciting or interesting : dull
They ran a pretty/quite/rather tame campaign. Some people were shocked by the movie, but I found the story pretty tame.
3 : gentle and obedient
Members of the audience were too tame to interrupt the speaker.
— tame·ly adverb
— tame·ness noun [noncount]

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