Someone who doesn't understand what is going on.

synonym: square.

Polish: lama

A fabric interwoven with threads of metal.

Dutch: lamé

Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg.

synonym: cripple.

Roget 645: be useless etc. adj.; go a begging etc. (redundant) 641; fail etc. 732.    seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the waves, battre l'eau avec un baton [Fr.], donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau [Fr.], fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins [Fr.]; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen etc. (too late) 135; hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls before swine etc. (waste) 638; carry coals to Newcastle etc. (redundancy) 641; wash a blackamoor white etc. (impossible) 471.    render useless etc. adj.; dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame etc. (injure) 659; spike guns, clip the wings; put out of gear.    ... show more

Roget 158: be impotent etc. adj.; not have a leg to stand on.    vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [Fr.], vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [Fr.].    collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke etc. (fail) 732.    render powerless etc. adj.; deprive of power; disable, disenable^†; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple^†, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten^†, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat [Fr.], spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.    unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix.    shatter, exhaust, weaken etc. 160.    ... show more

Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness:
— A lame argument.

synonym: feeble.

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile^†; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless^†, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic^†, asthenic^†; nervous.    soft, effeminate, feminate^†, womanly.    frail, fragile, shattery^†; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy^†; drooping, tottering etc. v.. broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied etc. 158; decrepit.    languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish^†; sickly etc. (disease) 655; dull, slack, evanid^†, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.    unstrengthened etc. 159^†, unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless^†, defenseless etc. 158; cantilevered (support) 215.    on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless etc. 429.    ... show more

Roget 53: incomplete; imperfect etc. 651; unfinished; uncompleted etc. (complete) etc. 729; defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear^†; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude etc. (unprepared) 674.    mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated.    in progress, in hand; going on, proceeding.    ... show more

Roget 651: imperfect; not perfect etc. 650; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped etc. (distort) 243; lame; injured etc. (deteriorated) 659; peccant etc. (bad) 649; frail etc. (weak) 160; inadequate etc. (insufficient) 640; crude etc. (unprepared) 674; incomplete etc. 53; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.    indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average etc. 29; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable^†, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.    secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].    ... show more

Disabled in the feet or legs.

synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting.

Roget 655: diseased; ailing etc. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather [U.S.]; valetudinary^†.    unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose^†, healthless^†, infirm, chlorotic [Med.], unbraced^†.    drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.    morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid^†, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic; dyspeptic; luetic^†, pneumonic, pulmonic [Med.], phthisic^†, rachitic; syntectic^†, syntectical^†; tabetic^†, varicose.    touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat etc. (useless) 645 [Fr.].    weakly, weakened etc. (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed etc. (deteriorated) 659; incurable etc. (hopeless) 859; in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund etc. (death) 360.    morbific etc. 657^†; epidemic, endemic; zymotic^†.    ... show more