Synonyms for lame
læˈmeɪ, lɑ-lame

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lame

   Synonyms:
   weak, faltering, hobbling, hesitating, ineffective, impotent, crippled, halt, defective, imperfect

   Antonyms:
   robust, agile, potent, efficient, satisfactory, cogent, convincing, tolling, effective

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1. square, lamenoun

   someone who doesn't understand what is going on

   Synonyms:
   foursquare, square toes, square, public square, second power

   Antonyms:
   fit, strong

2. lameadjective

   a fabric interwoven with threads of metal

   "she wore a gold lame dress"

   Synonyms:
   square

   Antonyms:
   strong, fit

3. feeble, lameadjective

   pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness

   "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

   Synonyms:
   rickety, faint, debile, halt, nerveless, sapless, halting, crippled, weakly, feeble, gimpy, infirm, decrepit, game, weak

   Antonyms:
   fit, strong

4. crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, gameverb

   disabled in the feet or legs

   "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

   Synonyms:
   mettlesome, crippled, halt, spirited, halting, gamy, gritty, feeble, gamey, spunky, gimpy, game

   Antonyms:
   fit, strong

5. cripple, lameverb

   deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

   "The accident has crippled her for life"

   Synonyms:
   cripple, stultify

   Antonyms:
   strong, fit

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1. lameadjective

   Synonyms:
   crippled, halt, hobbling

2. lameadjective

   Synonyms:
   defective, imperfect

3. lameadjective

   Synonyms:
   insufficient, unsatisfactory, weak, feeble, poor

4. lameverb

   Synonyms:
   cripple, make lame

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1. lameadjective

   Synonyms:
   crippled, hobbling, limping, halt, deformed, game, maimed, disabled, inconclusive, unconvincing, inefficient, feeble, unsatisfactory

2. lameverb

   Synonyms:
   disable, maim, cripple, hamstring

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "lame":

   pathetic, nil, null, zero, limp, blade, boring, rotten

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1. Orrin Hatch:

   A lot of people on something this important do not want to have it passed or rejected by a lame duck Congress.

2. Albert Einstein:

   Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

3. Jerry Garcia:

   For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

4. Charles Dickens:

   Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

5. British Prime Minister David Cameron:

   I'll tell him what is a lame duck, and that is trying to get into Downing Street on the back of Alex Salmond’s coat tails, never mind talk of ducks, I am looking at Alex Salmond’s poodle.