About The Word Seedy
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Seedy
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What's The Definition Of Seedy?
[adj] weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today"
[adj] 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" [adj] full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [adj] shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain Synonyms | Synonyms for Seedy: debilitated | disreputable | enfeebled | infirm | scruffy | seamy | seeded | sleazy | sordid | squalid | unhealthy | worn Related Terms | Find terms related to Seedy: See Also | Seedy In Webster's Dictionary \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
{Seedy toe}, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
lamin[ae] and the wall of the hoof.
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