Lame

Definition: Lame

Lame

Adjective

1. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument".

2. (of horses) disabled in the feet or legs.

3. Disabled in the feet or legs.

Noun

1. Someone who doesn't understand what is going on.

2. A fabric interwoven with threads of metal; "she wore a gold lame dress".

Verb

1. Deprive of the use of a limb, esp. a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lame" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lame

Aid

Verb: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid; n. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid; Noun: give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.

Deterioration

Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.

Disease

Unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.

Martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind"; valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber.

Dissuasion

Pretense; (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading; (sophistry); soft sawder; (flattery).

Imperfection

Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Incompleteness

Adjective: incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; (see complete; ); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude; (unprepared).

Inutility

Render useless; Adjective: dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame; (injure); spike guns, clip the wings; put out of gear.

Judgment

Phrase: "a Daniel come to judgment"; "and stand a critic, hated yet caress'd"; "it is much easier to be critical than to be correct"; la critique est aisee et l'art est difficile; "nothing if not critical"; "O most lame and impotent conclusion".

Nonpayment

Bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter.

Vindication

Extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.

Weakness

Broken, lame, withered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.

Crosswords: Lame

French (blade, lamella, lamina, razor, runner, scoop, shaft, sword, wave), German (lame).

If he honestly thinks that the environmental community is going to whistle a happy tune while rallying support around this pitifully lame mockery of environmental leadership just because he's a nice guy and he's done better than his predecessors, then your boss is the Chief Executive of Fantasyland (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Only a toon could cook up that lame brain freeway idea (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

Oh, come on, you're such a lame ass (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Oh, well, that's interesting, because, since everyone knows that there's no year zero, the millennium doesn't really begin until 2001, which would make your party one year late, and thus, quite lame. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Well if loving my kids is lame, then I guess I'm just a big lame (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Is it wrong if I think it's lame to dance (First Date; performing artist: Blink-182)

I will always be lame (Father Of Mine; performing artist: Everclear)

Same lame bitch I bust in her face (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z)

For every time I feel lame (Soak Up the Sun; performing artist: SHERYL CROW)

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. (references; author: Mark Twain)

My dame hath a lame tame crane, my dame hath a crane that is lame. (references; author: unknown)

Lame Brains (1925)

The Legs of the Lame (1985)

Lame Ducks (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ashes of Heaven: The Lame Deer Flight-- May 7, 1877 and the End of the Great Sioux War (The Plainsman Series) (reference)

• Lame Johnny Creek (reference)

• Rock and Roll's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Lame Lyrics, Eregious Egos, and Other Oddities (reference)

• Stick Horse Lame Rider (reference)

• The Case of the Lame Canary: A Perry Mason Mystery (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Little Lame Prince (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Saints Peter and John healing the lame man] / Martinus Heemskerck Inventor. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Lame Man healed by Peter & John. / Raphael d'Urbin pinx. E. Cooper ex. J. Simon fec. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The strange allegory of the lame boy's speech filled her with awe. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pandemonium college, or The battle of the bulls, bears, and lame ducks, as fought in 'C--ge- Alley. Credit: Library of Congress.

Post office and general store. Lame Deer, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lame Deer (vicinity), Montana. Dude looking out over Lyman Brewster's lease and across range country from the "top of the world". Credit: Library of Congress.

Stores in Lame Deer, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dude looking out over Lyman Brewster's lease and across range country from "top of the world." Near Lame Deer, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Building a reservoir for range cattle on Lyman Brewster's lease. Near Lame Deer, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Looking over Lyman Brewster's lease and across range country. Near Lame Deer, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The lame man who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent

The impression was, a King lifting up a lame beggar from the earth

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Political Economy

Honduras

The upcoming presidential elections in November of 2001 likely will affect the business climate, as presidential candidates publicize their economic agendas, and the current Administration enters a lame duck period. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions using "lame": be lame ♦ become lame ♦ fall lame ♦ gold lame ♦ help a lame dog over a stile ♦ lame brain ♦ Lame Deer ♦ lame duck ♦ lame excuse ♦ lame man ♦ lame person ♦ lame verses ♦ walk lame ♦ walking lame. Additional references.

Beginning with "lame": lame-duck.

Albanian

sakatoj (beat up, cripple, maim, mangle, maul, mutilate), sakatohem, i varfër (bad, beggarly, destitute, fortuneless, impecunious, indigent, lazarus, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, miserable, one horse, penurious, poor, spare, squalid, wretched), i ngrirë (congealed, dull, freezing, frost-bound, frosted, frozen, glace, glassy, numb, prim, starchy, stiff, stilted), i mpirë (asleep, benumbed, dead, inert, muscle bound, numb, obtuse, stale, torpid), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), i çalë (flawed, gammy, limping), gjymtoj (cripple, disable, dismember, hackle, haggle, limb, maim, mutilate), gjymtohem (be mutilated). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسيح (rachitic, rickety), ‏مقعد (bench, chair, couch, cripple, crippled, disable, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, seat, settee, sofa, stool), ‏لعبة قديمة, ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏الأعرج, ‏أعرج (cripple, game, gimp, halt, halting, limping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сакат (game), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), куц (groggy, halt, limping), осакатявам (cripple, disable, dismember, emasculate, hamstring, hock, hough, maim, mangle, mutilate, nip), осакатял (crippled, disabled), окуцял (foundered), неубедителен (inconclusive, threadbare, unconvincing, unpersuasive), незадоволителен (dissatisfactory, ill, inadequate, lamentable, meager, meagre, sour, unsatisfactory), неправилен (abnormal, anomalous, awry, defective, erroneous, false, faulty, improper, incorrect, injudicious, irregular, mis-, mistaken, unequal, unfair, untrue, vicious, wrongful), ламе, правя неспособен (disable, incapacitate, indispose, unfit), правя негоден (crock, disable, disqualify, incapacitate, indispose, unfit). (various references)

Chinese 

躄 (both feet crippled), 蹇 (difficulty), 跛足 , 跛 (crippled), 薄板, 瘸 , 尪 (feeble), 尢 . (various references)

Czech

chromý, chabý (faint, frail, threadbare, torpid, vapid, wan, weedy). (various references)

Danish

halt (crippled). (various references)

Dutch

kreupel (crippled), mank, hinkend. (various references)

Esperanto

lama. (various references)

Finnish

ontuva (limping). (various references)

French

boiteux (lame man). (various references)

Frisian

mank. (various references)

German

lahm (dreary, dull, feeble, flat, game, gammy, lamely, lifeless, naff, paralysed, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stiff, tame, tamely), lähmen (cripple, hamstring, hamstringed, hamstrung, paralyse, paralyze, spoil, stultify, to lame, to paralyse, to paralyze). (various references)

Greek 

καθιστώ χωλόν, κουτσόσ, κουτσός (hopscotch), χωλόσ (cripple, halt), χωλό (crippled). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"טיל מום (mutilate), פסח (passover), צולע (cripple, gammy, halt, limping). (various references)

Hungarian

sánta (cripple, game, gimpy, halt, halting, limping), béna (cripple, crippled, game, gammy, half-assed, halting, maimed, paralytic). (various references)

Indonesian

pincang (cripple, game), dengklang (limping), capik (paralyzed). (various references)

Irish

bacach (lame person). (various references)

Italian

zoppo (cripple, gammy, lame person, limping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

跛 (cripple), 片跛 (mismatched), ラ� �' (laminated ski, LAN, Land Cruiser, Langerhans, language, language laboratory, language processor, lariat, lauan, LL, lullaby, lung, rally, Ralph Lauren, rank, ranking, rum, run, wraparound retaining straps worn with the old ski cable bindings). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ラメ , びっ�" (cripple), かたち�"ば (mismatched). (various references)

Korean 

시류에 어두운 사람. (various references)

Manx

staagagh (awkward, hobbling, staggery), martarey (cripple, disable, maim), jannoo baccagh, croobagh (cripple, crippled animal, deformed). (various references)

Norwegian

halt. (various references)

Papiamen

manká, koho. (various references)

Pig Latin

amelay.(various references)

Portuguese

manco (halo, hobbler, limper). (various references)

Romanian

schilodi (cripple, disable, maim, mangle, maul, mutilate), schilod (cripple, crippled, deformed, disabled, gamy, invalid), ologi (cripple), olog (crippled), nesatisfãcãtor (unsatisfactory), neconvingãtor (unconvincing), defect (defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, infelicity, shortcoming, ulcer, vice, want, weakness), cotonog (hobbling, paralysed, paralyzed), care şchiopatã, şchiop (gimp, halt, halting). (various references)

Russian 

хромой (gammy, halting, limping). (various references)

Scottish

lurcach (lame in the feet), liùg (a lame hand or foot sneaking look), spliut (a lame hand, a lame hand or foot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osakatiti (maim, mutilate, stultify), neubedljiv (inconclusive, unconvincing), hrom (chrome, chromium, game, halting, limping), bangav, šepav, šantav (limping). (various references)

Spanish

cojo (cripple, dot and go one, gammy, one-legged). (various references)

Swedish

lam (crippled, paralysed, paralyzed), halt (content, fibre, fineness, gammy, halt, percentage, slippery, stop, substance, value), vanför (disabled), ofärdig (crippled, incompletely). (various references)

Thai

ไม่ไ�"้เรื่อง. (various references)

Turkish

aksak (game, gammy, halting, hipshot, interrupted, limping, lopsided, palsied). (various references)

Turkmen 

agsak. (various references)

Ukrainian

кульгавий (badger-legged, cripple, dot and go one, gammy, halt), кривий (awry, bandy, bent, cam, cripple, crook, crooked, gammy, wry), калічити (beat up, cripple, hamstring, maim, mutilate), нівечити (canker, deface, defeature, deform, disfigure, maim, vandalize), невдалий (abortive, awry, bad, failed, ineffectual, infelicitous, nasty, naughty, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, wide). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lá kim loại, què, khập khiễng không chỉnh, không thoả đáng; què quặt không ra đâu v� o đâu. (various references)

Welsh

cloffi (halt), cloff. (various references)

claudus, coxi. (various references)

lemphealt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "lame": lamebrain, lamebrained, lamebrains, lamed, lamedh, lamedhs, lameds, lamella, lamellae, lamellar, lamellas, lamellate, lamellately, lamellibranch, lamellibranchs, lamellicorn, lamellicorns, lamelliform, lamely, lameness, lamenesses, lament, lamentable, lamentableness, lamentablenesses, lamentably, lamentation, lamentations, lamented, lamentedly, lamenter, lamenters, lamenting, laments, lamer, lames, lamest. (additional references)

Words ending with "lame": aflame, blame, enflame, flame, inflame, preflame, reclame. (additional references)

Words containing "lame": alameda, alamedas, blamed, blameful, blamefully, blameless, blamelessly, blamelessness, blamelessnesses, blamer, blamers, blames, blameworthiness, blameworthinesses, blameworthy, cyclamen, cyclamens, enflamed, enflames, filament, filamentary, filamentous, filaments, flamed, flamen, flamenco, flamencos, flamens, flameout, flameouts, flameproof, flameproofed, flameproofer, flameproofers, flameproofing, flameproofs, flamer, flamers, flames, flamethrower, flamethrowers, inflamed, inflamer, inflamers, inflames, melamed, microfilament, microfilaments, monofilament, monofilaments, multifilament. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lame" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alame, almeh, alome, Elkamel, kame, Lahma, Laim, Lakme, lale, lamae, lamag, lamay, lambe, lamea, lamec, Lamel, Lamen, lameo, lamet, lamey, Laml, lamme, lamn, lamo, Lamu, laney, lanu, lanze, larm, larme, lasm, laxe, leama, leem, lemi, lemme, lesme, lhama, Lhamo, liem, limec, Lma, loame, loem, lsme, luma, lume, lumex, lumi, lumme, olami. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alme, male, meal.

-1 letter: ale, elm, lam, lea, mae, mel.

-2 letters: ae, al, am, el, em, la, ma, me.

+1 letter: almeh, almes, amble, amole, ample, blame, camel, email, flame, fleam, gleam, hemal, lamed, lamer, lames, leman, lemma, macle, maile, males, maple, meals, mealy, medal, metal, realm, ulema.

+2 letters: aflame, agleam, almehs, almner, almuce, almude, ambled, ambler, ambles, amoles, ampler, ampule, amulet, armlet, becalm, bedlam, beldam, blamed, blamer, blames, calmed, calmer, camels, camlet, damsel, dermal, emails, embalm, empale, enamel, female, flambe, flamed, flamen, flamer, flames, fleams, gamble, gamely, gleams, gleamy, haemal, hamlet, hiemal, impale, lambed, lamber, lambie, lamedh, lameds, lamely, lament, lamest, lamiae, lammed, lamped, lawmen, laymen, legman, lemans, lemmas, loamed, mackle, macled, macles, macule, maglev, mailed, mailer, mailes, malate, malfed, malgre, malice, maline, malled, mallee, mallei, mallet, malted, mangel, mangle, mantel, mantle, maples, marble, marcel, marled, marvel, mauled, mauler, mealie, meanly, measle, measly, meatal, medals, medial, medlar, menial, mensal, mental, mescal, mesial, metals, mezcal, milage, morale, muleta, namely, palmed, palmer, ramble, realms, remail, samiel, samlet, sample, tamale, tamely, tramel, ulemas, wadmel, wamble.