Qualities
Synonyms for lame
Synonyms for lame: feeble and game. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for lame
Interchangeable with lame in this sense
Audited under lame's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one lame carries in that sense.
- feebleadjective, in the sense "pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name lame as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- gamegame is an adjective in the sense "disabled in the feet or legs"
The first group is filed under lame's own sense. The second reaches lame from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
A lame argument.
The true synonym
feeble
Same sentence, swapped: A feeble argument.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for lame in the sentence quoted.
- halt
- unfortunate
- net
Where lame turns up in the game
lame is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where lame is the trap
- feebleadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is weak, in the sense "lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality", and lame is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play lame
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lame reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company lame keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. lame carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.