lame

Meaning

Adj

1. Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
2. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
3. Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
4. (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
5. (colloquial) Synonym of 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. A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
3. Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

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

☹️

unprepossessing

unpresentable

unrefined

unsavory

unsavoury

broken-winged

dumbass

lame person

tike

walk slowly

walk with a limp

ill-prepared

unretentive

crooked leg

unable to walk

make to limp

out of style

to be

lamish

bad

👎

be

bent

bozo

broken

bum

chump

clumsy

convulsion

crippling

defective

deplorable

dork

gimp

goon

hamstring

ill

🤢

inadequate

incapacitate

lameness

lamina

lantern

🏮

legs

maim

main

muggins

nincompoop

off

offensive

Pronounced as (IPA)

/leɪm/

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”).