tame

B2 · Upper Intermediate

adj. boring or not very interesting.

adj. lacking spirit, intensity, or excitement; often used to describe events or entertainment that failed to meet expectations.

“The party was a bit tame compared to the one they had last year.”

“Critics found the sequel surprisingly tame, noting that the director had stripped away the gritty realism that made the original film so compelling.”

C2 · Proficiency Mathematics Technical

adj. a special way to describe shapes in math that are not too complicated.

adj. describing a knot or embedding that can be represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

“In this geometry lesson, we are only looking at tame curves.”

“The theorem specifically applies to tame knots, excluding the pathological complexities found in wild embeddings that cannot be simplified into polygonal segments.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate

v. to make a wild animal calm or to control something that is difficult to manage.

v. to domesticate a wild animal or to bring a powerful or unruly force under control.

“It took many months of patient work to tame the wild horse.”

“The government introduced new regulations in an attempt to tame the rampant inflation that had devalued the national currency over the previous decade.”