lame
Meaning of lame
adjective
- (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
- (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
- (of verse or metrical feet) halting; metrically defective.
- 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- fabric with interwoven gold or silver threads.
a gold lamé suit
1920s: French, from Latin lamina (see lamina).
Information about lame
- The plural form of lame is: lames.
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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:
Meaning crippled:
crippled, halt, halting, gimpy, game
Meaning square:
Meaning cripple:
Meaning walking with difficulty, typically because of a damaged or stiff leg or foot:
Meaning walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury:
Meaning deprived of strength or power; debilitated:
Meaning in a very weakened and infirm state:
Meaning not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness:
Meaning (of a person or part of the body) not having the normal or natural shape or form; misshapen:
Meaning wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged:
Meaning imperfect or faulty:
Meaning (of part of a person's body, especially the leg) unable to function normally because of injury or chronic pain:
Translation of lame
- Italian: zoppo, zoppicante
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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