tameless

[ teym-lis ]

/ ˈteɪm lɪs /

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adjective

untamed or untamable.

RELATED WORDS

ferocious, animal, brutal, fierce, raging, savage, uncultivated, wild, undomesticated

Nearby words

tambura, tamburitza, tamburlaine, tame, tameable, tameless, tamerlane, tameside, tamiflu, tamil, tamil eelam

Origin of tameless

First recorded in 1590–1600; tame + -less

Related forms

tame·less·ly, adverbtame·less·ness, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for tameless

His whole person, bearing, and frame bore out the impression of a tameless spirit.
A Woman of Thirty|Honore de Balzac
The Goths, accustomed for generations to their tameless freedom, have not acquired the habit of obedience to the laws.
Theodoric the Goth|Thomas Hodgkin
Make but appeal to the spirit—the proud and tameless spirit—and how the flesh answered!
The Marriage of William Ashe|Mrs. Humphry Ward
His only virtues were courage and patience, but they were counterbalanced by a tameless ferocity.
The Walls of Constantinople|Bernard Granville Baker

A man has written of an old Tartar that he was a tameless gorilla—a gorilla without a tame!
An Outline of English Speech-craft|William Barnes