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   lame

   /leɪm/

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of an animal) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot: "his horse went lame" Similar limpinghobblingincapacitateddebilitatedinfirmdeformedmaimeddefectiveinformal:gammyarchaic:haltgameOpposite able-bodied
   • ▪ (of a leg or foot) affected by injury or illness: "despite his lame leg, he fled"
   • 2. (of something intended to be entertaining) uninspiring and dull: "I found the programme pretty lame and not very informative"
   • ▪ (of an explanation or excuse) unconvincingly feeble: "the TV licensing teams hear a lot of lame excuses" Similar feebleweakthinflimsytransparentpoorpunyunconvincingimplausibleunlikelyhollowhard to believeinformal:pathetichalf-bakedhard to swallowOpposite convincingpersuasive
   • ▪ (of a person) naive or socially inept: informal North American "anyone who doesn't know that is obviously lame"
   • 3. (of verse or metrical feet) halting; metrically defective.

   verb

   • 1. make (a person or animal) lame: "he was badly lamed during the expedition"

   Word Origin Old Englishlama, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch lam and German lahm.

   Derivatives

   • 1. lamely adverb
   • 2. lameness noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • M

     3

   • E

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