Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
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3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
seedy
adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
[syn: scruffy]
3: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of
life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy
storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly;
"the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very
nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of
intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, sleazy, sordid,
squalid]
4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: debilitated,
enfeebled, infirm]
[also: seediest, seedier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
154 Moby Thesaurus words for "seedy":
Mickey Mouse, ailing, bad, base, beat-up, bedraggled, below par,
blowzy, broken-down, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse,
common, critically ill, debilitated, decayed, decaying, decrepit,
deteriorated, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down, down-at-heel,
down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
drooping, droopy, enervated, enfeebled, faded, fagged, faint,
fainting, faintish, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint,
feeling something terrible, flagging, footsore, fourth-class,
frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes,
good and tired, grubby, holey, ill, in danger, in rags, in shreds,
in tatters, indisposed, inferior, informal, irregular, jaded,
laid low, languid, loose, low-class, low-grade, low-quality,
low-test, lumpen, mangy, mean, messy, mortally ill, mussy,
neglected, negligent, not quite right, off-color, out of sorts,
overgrown, paltry, patchy, poky, poor, poorly, punk, ragged,
raggedy, ratty, ready to drop, rocky, ruinous, run ragged,
run-down, sagging, scraggly, scruffy, second-best, second-class,
shabby, shoddy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickly, slack,
slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid,
squalid, tacky, taken ill, tattered, tatty, third-class,
third-rate, threadbare, tinny, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torn,
under the weather, unkempt, unneat, unrefreshed, unrestored,
unsightly, untidy, unwell, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened,
wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
weary-worn, wilted, wilting, worn, worn out, worn-down
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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