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Meaning of 'seedy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Seedy [ superl.]
- Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
- Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
- Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.

Meaning of 'seedy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . seedy [ a]
Meaning (1):
- full of seeds
Example in sentence:
  • as seedy as a fig
2 . seedy [ s]
Meaning (2):
- morally degraded
Example in sentence:
  • a seedy district;
  • sleazy characters hanging around casinos;
  • sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls;
  • the seamy side of life;
  • the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils;
  • the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal
Meaning (3):
- somewhat ill or prone to illness
Example in sentence:
  • a sickly child;
  • feeling a bit indisposed today;
  • feeling poorly;
  • is unwell and can't come to work;
  • my poor ailing grandmother;
  • you look a little peaked
Meaning (4):
- shabby and untidy
Example in sentence:
  • a surge of ragged scruffy children;
  • he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin

Nearby Words:

see seed seed-lac seedbox seedcake seedcod seeded seeder seediness seeding

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