lame

Meanings

Adjective

• 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.
• Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
• Unconvincing or unbelievable.
• Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.

Verb

• To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.

Noun

• A stupid or undesirable person.
• A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
• A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
• Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

Related

Similar words

• crippled
• hobbling, limping, inefficient, imperfect
• weak, unbelievable
• boring, pathetic, uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevant

Opposite words

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

Origin

• From Middle English lame, from Old English lama, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lem-. Akin to German lahm and Dutch lam, Old Norse lami, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian lam, akin to Old Church Slavonic ломити.
• From Middle French lame, from Latin lamina.