tameless

[ teym-lis ]

adjective

1. untamed or untamable.

Other Words From

• tameless·ly adverb
• tameless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of tameless¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; tame + -less

Example Sentences

When the production ends in song and dance — a tameless exaltation of noise and movement — it seemed to leave even the air in the theater tremulous with excitement.

From New York Times

The chaplain loved his wife and children with such tameless intensity that he often wanted to sink to the ground helplessly and weep like a castaway cripple.

From Literature

"And then there was Abe, loyal as they came, quiet when quiet was called for, and, if need be, tameless as the stalking lion."

From Los Angeles Times

The danger there, His instinct teaches, and with growing dread, No more solicitous of graceful flight, He bounds across the plain—he speeds away, Into the tameless wilderness afar, To 'scape his bondage.

From Project Gutenberg

Her skin was white, her wavy hair like the tendrils of the woodbine, her eyes tameless and wild, her mouth like a budding pomegranate.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• ferocious