lame

Meaning of lame

adjective
  1. (especially of an animal) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot.
    his horse went lame
  2. (of something intended to be entertaining) uninspiring and dull.
    I found the programme pretty lame and not very informative
    I made really stupid posters with lame slogans
  3. (of verse or metrical feet) halting; metrically defective.
verb
  1. make (a person or animal) lame.
    he was badly lamed during the expedition

Old English lama, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch lam and German lahm .

noun
  1. fabric with interwoven gold or silver threads.
    a gold lamé suit

1920s: French, from Latin lamina (see lamina).

Information about lame

Hyphenation of lame

lame

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • lame is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

lame synonyms

Meaning feeble:

feeble

Meaning crippled:

crippled, halt, halting, gimpy, game

Meaning square:

square

Meaning cripple:

cripple

Meaning walking with difficulty, typically because of a damaged or stiff leg or foot:

limping

Meaning walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury:

hobbling

Meaning deprived of strength or power; debilitated:

incapacitated

Meaning in a very weakened and infirm state:

debilitated

Meaning not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness:

infirm

Meaning (of a person or part of the body) not having the normal or natural shape or form; misshapen:

deformed

Meaning wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged:

maimed

Meaning imperfect or faulty:

defective

Meaning (of part of a person's body, especially the leg) unable to function normally because of injury or chronic pain:

gammy

Translation of lame

Anagrams of lame

Alem, alem, alme, amel, Elam, Elma, Emla, leam, Lema, lema, Mael, Male, male, meal, Mela, mela

Words that rhyme with lame

Salame, palame, salame, blame, disblame, overblame, reblame, clame, raclame, rclame, thiocyclame, aflame, coenflame, disinflame, enflame, flame, inflame, misinflame, outflame, preflame, reflame, reinflame, underflame, unflame, upflame, Akhlame, unlame, Cholame

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