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/leɪm/ · adjective
(especially of an animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs..
With the years, this horse has little by little gone lame.
Alone, alone, to where he sits, The Shadow cloak’d from head to foot Who keeps the keys of all the creeds, I wander, often falling lame, And looking back to whence I came, Or on to where the pathway leads; […]
a lame endeavour
O, most lame and impotent conclusion![…]
It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame and dark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.
The ی consonant is our English y[…] It is really a sad mistake for us, who possess this useful consonant, to adopt the lame expedient to which other languages are forced to have recourse, namely, the use of the vowel i, with or without the diaresis over it.
He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.
He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.
Use lame when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lame means (especially of an animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs..
Common synonyms include crippled, weak, cripple, disable.
Possible antonyms include efficient, perfect, convincing, believable.
With the years, this horse has little by little gone lame.
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