Lame
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English
Adjective
Lame (comparative lamer, superlative lamest)
- unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs
- moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function
- a lame leg, arm or muscle
- (by extension) hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
- (slang) unconvincing or unbelievable
- He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.
- (slang) failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant
- He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.
Notes
Referring to a person without a disability as “lame” is offensive to many as it suggests a derogatory characterization to the physical condition from which the term was derived.
Synonyms
- (unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs): crippled
- (moving with difficulty):
- (by extension, hobbling): hobbling, limping, inefficient, imperfect
- (slang, unconvincing): unconvincing, unbelievable
- (slang, failing to be cool, funny, interesting, or relevant): uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevant
Antonyms
- (unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs):
- (moving with difficulty):
- (by extension, hobbling): efficient, perfect
- (slang, unconvincing): convincing, believable
- (slang, failing to be cool, funny, interesting, or relevant): cool, funny, interesting, relevant
Derived terms
Verb
Lame (third-person singular simple present Lames, present participle laming, simple past and past participle lamed)
- (transitive) to cause a person or animal to become lame
- 1877: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: And if you don't want to lame your horse you must look sharp and get them [stones stuck in hooves] out quickly.
Noun
Lame (plural Lames)- a lamina
- pl. a set of joined, overlapping metal plates
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Thesaurus
abortive, awkward, bad, bootless, bugger, burden, castrate, castrated, clumsy, cramp, cripple, crippled, cumber, de-energize, debilitate, disable, disabled, disenable, drain, emasculate, emasculated, embarrass, encumber, enfeeble, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, failed, failing, feeble, fetter, flimsy, fruitless, futile, game, half-baked, halt, halting, hamper, hamstring, hamstrung, handicap, handicapped, hobble, hobbled, hobbling, hors de combat, impaired, impede, inactivate, incapacitate, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, involve, kibosh, lime, limping, lumber, maim, maimed, manque, miscarried, miscarrying, net, of no effect, poor, press down, put, queer, queer the works, sabotage, saddle with, shackle, snarl, spavined, spike, stickit, stillborn, successless, tangle, thin, toil, trammel, unconvincing, unfit, unfortunate, unsuccessful, useless, weak, weaken, weigh down, wing, wreck
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old English lama, from the Proto-Germanic *lama- from Proto-Indo-European *lem- (“to crush; fragile”). [1] Akin to German lahm and Dutch lam, Old Norse lami, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian lam, akin to Old Church Slavonic ломити (lomiti, “to break”).
Etymology 2
From Middle French, from Latin lamina
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References
- ↑ Pokorny 2365.
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Estonian
Adjective
Lame
French
Noun
Lame f. (plural Lames)
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German
Adjective
Lame
- (slang) boring; unimpressive
- (slang) unskilled; useless
- Ich wollte nicht sagen, dass das was die machen total lame ist.
- I didn’t want to say that what they are doing is totally lame.
- Ich wollte nicht sagen, dass das was die machen total lame ist.
Etymology
From the English adjective lame.
Italian
Noun
lame f.
- Plural form of lama.
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Old French
Noun
Lame f. (oblique plural Lames, nominative singular Lame, nominative plural Lames)
- blade (of a weapon)
Spanish
Verb
Lame (infinitive lamer)
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of lamer.
- ¡Lame! — “Lick!”
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of lamer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of lamer.
- Lame. — “[He/she/it] licks.”
Swedish
Adjective
Lame
- absolute definite natural masculine form of lam.
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