prosaic vs tame

prosaic

adj
  • Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry. 

  • Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. 

  • Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring. 

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. 

How often have the words prosaic and tame occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )