Lame

Adjective

 * 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
 * a lame leg, arm or muscle
 * 1)  hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
 * 2)  unconvincing or unbelievable
 * He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.
 * 1)  failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant
 * He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.

Synonyms

 * crippled
 * hobbling, limping, inefficient, imperfect
 * unconvincing, unbelievable
 * uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevant
 * uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevant

Antonyms

 * efficient, perfect
 * convincing, believable
 * cool, funny, interesting, relevant
 * convincing, believable
 * cool, funny, interesting, relevant

Derived terms

 * lame duck
 * lamage
 * lamebrain
 * lamely
 * lameness
 * lamestream
 * lame-o

Verb

 * 1)  to cause a person or animal to become lame
 * 2) * 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

 * 1) a lamina
 * 2)  a set of joined, overlapping metal plates

Related terms

 * lamé

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

Etymology 1
From lama:, from the  from. Akin to German lahm: and Dutch lam:, Old Norse lami:, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian lam:, akin to Old Church Slavonic ломити:.

Etymology 2
From, from lamina

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 瘸腿, 跛, 跛足, 瘸
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: boiteux, boiteuse
 * German: lahm
 * Greek: χωλός, κουτσός


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 足の不自由, 足の悪い
 * Lithuanian: luošas, šlubas
 * Polish: kulawy, kulejący
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: schiop,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, rengo
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: أعرج
 * Dutch: kreupel, mankend
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: χωλός, κουτσός


 * Hungarian: nyomorék,
 * Romanian: handicapat, schiopatand
 * Russian: искалеченный, увечный


 * Dutch: wankel, mankend
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: sántikáló


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: хромающий


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: boîteux, pitoyable,, bancal
 * Greek: αστήρικτος,


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: słaby, nieprzekonywujący, kiepski
 * Romanian:, , lipsit de gust
 * Russian: слабый, неубедительный


 * Danish: lamt
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ださださ
 * Polish: kiepski
 * Romanian: anost,, sters
 * Spanish: chafa


 * : çalë
 * : coix
 * : hrom
 * : paralizata
 * : boiteux; nul, minable
 * : lahm (2)
 * : अपंग (apanga)


 * : storpio
 * : अपंग (apanga)
 * : șchiop, olog
 * : अपङगः (apangaha), पङगु (pangu)
 * : bacach, crùbach, cuagach
 * : cojo, rengo

Verb

 * Polish: kuleć

Anagrams

 * amel
 * Elma
 * lema
 * male, Malé
 * meal

Adjective

 * 1) flat

Noun

 * 1) lamina
 * 2) blade
 * 3) wave

Related terms

 * lamé
 * lamellaire
 * lamelle
 * laminer
 * lamineur
 * lamineur

Anagrams

 * mâle, mêla

Adjective

 * 1)  boring; unimpressive
 * 2)  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.

Etymology
From the English adjective lame:.

Noun
lame



Anagrams

 * alme
 * male
 * mela

Noun

 * 1) blade of a weapon

Verb

 * ¡Lame! — “Lick!”
 * Lame. — “[He/she/it] licks.”
 * Lame. — “[He/she/it] licks.”
 * Lame. — “[He/she/it] licks.”
 * Lame. — “[He/she/it] licks.”