stubborn vs tame

stubborn

noun
  • Stubbornness. 

  • A disease of citrus trees characterized by stunted growth and misshapen fruit, caused by Spiroplasma citri. 

adj
  • Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something. 

  • Of materials: physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked. 

tame

adj
  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 

  • Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. 

  • Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. 

  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated. 

  • Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. 

  • Not exciting. 

verb
  • To make gentle or meek. 

  • To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. 

  • To become tame or domesticated. 

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