lame

Meaning

Adj

1. (especially) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
2. (especially) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
3. (dated, especially, offensive) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
4. (broadly, dated) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
5. (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
6. (colloquial) Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.

Verb

To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.

Noun

A stupid or undesirable person.

Noun

1. A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
2. (in-plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
3. A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

Opposite of

efficient, perfect, convincing, believable

Synonyms

crippled

cripple

limping

limp

halt

weak

gimpy

disable

disabled

hobbling

make lame

game

square

halting

feeble

rickety

wobbly

maimed

hamstrung

handicapped

paralysed

paralyzed

unsatisfactory

hobbled

unsightly

twisted

crooked

exceed

injure

flimsy

one-legged

poor

regrettable

shaky

sickly

spasm

spastic

spavined

sprained

too bad

tough

twerp

twirp

twist

twit

tyke

unconvincing

unfashionable

unfortunate

unhappy

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Translations

cojo

boiteux

zoppo

lahm

coix

kreupel

mank

capenga

hinkend

claudus

manco

κουτσός

coxo

storpio

hinkend

Pronounced as (IPA)

/leɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: lame

Inherited from Old English: lama

In summary

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”).