Lame Meaning and Definition


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Lame meaning

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


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