Skip to main content
tamed

tamed

1.8
Made less wild so people can control it
  • adjective
  • /teɪmd/
translation icon : domesticado
  • All of this might give the impression that Ottoman Greece was a thoroughly tamed land, which it certainly was not.

Examples

  • After years of training, the once wild horse became a tamed and gentle companion.

  • Like a wild horse, he must be caught, tamed, and domesticated.

  • The top end brightness is not as shrill as it was, especially on like that is a little more tamed it seems.

  • All of this might give the impression that Ottoman Greece was a thoroughly tamed land, which it certainly was not.

  • He did area after area and by by the by the time that he's off fighting in France, he's off fighting in France because England has been more or less tamed, right.

  • The dog was tamed early in its life, making it safe to be around children.

  • The tamed lion at the zoo showed no aggression towards its visitors.

Synonyms

domestic
vstamed
32 2.5

Animals and plants changed to live with people for food, work, or pets

applies to control broadly not only for home or household use
tame
vstamed
11 1.0

Not wild because people keep or breed it

describes the change from wild to a safer manageable state
broken in
vstamed
8 5.2

An animal trained to let people ride or touch it

describes the broader change to controlled safer behaviour not only riding
broken
vstamed
  • Specialized
1 5.8

Tamed and trained to obey people

refers to general control or change from wildness not just training
domesticated
vstamed
  • Specialized
3.1

Kept or grown by people for food, work and company

focuses on general control rather than specific adaptation for human use

Antonyms

1.0

Living in a natural state and not tamed by people

15 3.8

In a natural state that people do not tame, like wild animals or places

How Tame

domesticated
  • Specialized
3.1
tamed
1.8
untamed
15 3.8

Surface Forms

tamed positive
tameder comparative
tamedest superlative

Morphology

tamed = tame (transparent) = tame + ed

Regular past-participial/adjectival formation from 'tame' with '-ed'; meaning is directly derived from the base verb.

Etymology

The word tamed comes from the old English word tame, which meant 'made gentle' or 'quiet'. So, when something is tamed it has been made less wild and more 'controlled' or safe.