tameness

  • 91meekness — meek·ness || mːɪknɪs n. humbleness; tameness, extreme submission …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 92house —    1. a brothel    Literally, a dwelling or any other building given over to a special purpose, such as a theatre or debating chamber. The use for a brothel tout court is obsolete, along with house of accommodation or assignation (which let rooms …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 93dotterel — [ dɒt(ə)r(ə)l] noun (plural same or dotterels) a small migratory plover which breeds in northern mountains and tundra. [Eudromias morinellus.] ↘chiefly Austral./NZ used in names of other small plovers. Origin ME: from dote (with ref. to the birds …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 94tame — adjective 1》 (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people.     ↘informal (of a person) willing to cooperate. 2》 not exciting, adventurous, or controversial. 3》 N. Amer. (of a plant) produced by cultivation.     ↘(of land) cultivated. verb …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 95insipidity — n.; (also insipidness) 1. Tastelessness, vapidness mawkishness, unsavoriness, staleness, flatness, lack of zest. 2. Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, tameness, prosiness, heaviness, lack of interest, uninteresting character …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 96stupidity — n. 1. Dulness, obtuseness, insensibility, sottishness, blockishness, doltishness, senselessness, sluggishness of understanding, slowness of apprehension. 2. Lifelessness, heaviness, insipidity, tameness, vapidness, want of interest, stupidness. 3 …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 97tame — 1 adjective 1 informal boring or unexciting and disappointing: After all that hype, the film was a bit tame. 2 an animal that is tame has been trained to live with people tamely adverb tameness noun (U) 2 verb (T) 1 to reduce the power or… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 98obedience — noun the party leadership wants blind obedience to their policies Syn: compliance, acquiescence, tractability, amenability; dutifulness, duty, deference, observance of the law/rules; submissiveness, submission, conformity, docility, tameness,… …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 99barrenness — n 1. childlessness, sterility, infertility, unprolificness, infecundity, Med. agenesis, impotence, effeteness. 2. unproductiveness, unyieldingness, unfruitfulness, fruitlessness; exhaustion, depletion, impoverishment; meagerness, scarcity,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 100frigidity — n 1. chill, coldness, cold, gelidity, al gidity, iciness, frozenness; bitterness, rawness, sharpness. 2. indifference, apathy, inertia, lifelessness, tameness, dullness; imperturbability, imperturbation, stoniness, callousness, obdurateness,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder