Boring vs. Lame — What's the Difference?

Not interesting; tedious

Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible

Uninteresting and tiresome; dull.

Marked by pain or rigidness

A pit or hole which has been bored.

Weak or ineffectual

Fragment thrown up when something is bored or drilled.

(Informal) Dull or unsatisfactory

Present participle of bore

(Slang) Socially inappropriate; foolish.

Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient.

To cause to become lame; cripple.

Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

A thin metal plate, especially one of the overlapping steel plates in medieval armor.

Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.

A shiny fabric woven with metallic threads, often of gold or silver.

Capable of penetrating; piercing.

To walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.

A hole made by boring.

(by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.

The chips or fragments made by boring.

(slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.

The act of drilling

(slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.

The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.

So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;

(prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.

A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.

(in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.

Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect; as, a lame answer.

To make lame.

Someone who doesn't understand what is going on

A fabric interwoven with threads of metal;

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

Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness;

(of horses) disabled in the feet or legs

Disabled in the feet or legs;