lame

lame is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
2. superlative. To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
3. superlative. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
4. transitive verb. To make lame.
5. noun. a fabric interwoven with threads of metal

   "she wore a gold lame dress"

6. noun. someone who doesn't understand what is going on

   Synonyms: square

7. verb. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

   "The accident has crippled her for life"

   Synonyms: cripple

8. adjective. disabled in the feet or legs

   "a crippled soldier"

   "a game leg"

   Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting

9. adjective. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness

   "a feeble excuse"

   "a lame argument"

   Synonyms: feeble

Synonyms

square, cripple, crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting, feeble

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lame:

alem, alme, amel, elam, leam, male, meal, mela

Common word forms

lamed, lamer, lames, lamely, lamest, laming, lameness

Words from these letters

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