lame
Plural: lames
Noun
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
- "she wore a gold lame dress"
- A stupid or undesirable person.
- A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
- A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
- A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
Verb
Verb Forms: lamed, laming, lames
- To make something or someone unable to walk normally.
- deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
- To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
Adjective Satellite
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
- "a lame argument"
- disabled in the feet or legs
Adj
- Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- That cannot be moved properly.
- Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- Physically disabled.
- Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
- Unconvincing or unbelievable.
- Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.
Adjective
- Unable to walk normally due to injury; unconvincing or weak.
Examples
- a lame man
- A poorly chosen word can lame your entire Words With Friends strategy for the round.
- He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.
- He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.
- His opponent’s excuse for a ’lame’ play was even lamer than the word itself.
- With the years, this horse has little by little gone lame.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃lemH- (“to tire; to break”).
Synonyms
cripple, crippled, feeble, game, gimpy, halt, halting, square, disable, gammy, lamella, lamina, weak
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
lame: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlame: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lame: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary