Word: Lame
How to pronounce: leɪm
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (especially of an animal) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot.
Example sentences: "His horse went lame"
2. (of something intended to be entertaining) uninspiring and dull.
Example sentences: "I found the program pretty lame and not very informative"
3. (of verse or metrical feet) halting; metrically defective.
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Make (a person or animal) lame.
Example sentences: "Somebody lamed him with a stone"
Noun
Definitions:
1. Fabric with interwoven gold or silver threads.
Example sentences: "A gold lamé suit"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (of fabric or a garment) interwoven with gold or silver threads.
Example sentences: "Driver is strikingly supported by Danielle Cormack as his loyal concubine, who appears in an increasingly bizarre array of outfits - sequined corsets, dominatrix leathers, gold lamé bodysuit - as her instability develops."
Synonyms:
lame man
limping
gimpy
halting
cripple
flimsy
unpersuasive
unconvincing
crippled
mutilate
loser
nasty
wrong
halt
wretched
poor
bad
crummy
lousy
Derivations:
lameness
lamely
lamed
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Lame in Other Languages...
Spanish: Cojo
German: Lahm
French: Boiteux
Italian: Zoppo
Turkish: Topal
