SEEDY

seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

(adjective) 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”

seedy

(adjective) full of seeds; “as seedy as a fig”

ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy

(adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness; “my poor ailing grandmother”; “feeling a bit indisposed today”; “you look a little peaked”; “feeling poorly”; “a sickly child”; “is unwell and can’t come to work”

scruffy, seedy

(adjective) shabby and untidy; “a surge of ragged scruffy children”; “he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin”- Mark Twain

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

seedy (comparative seedier, superlative seediest)

Full of seeds.

(figurative) Disreputable, run-down.

Synonym: sleazy

Untidy; unkempt.

Infirm; unwell; gone to seed.

Suffering the effects of a hangover.

Having the flavour of seeds.

(colloquial) Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.

Anagrams

• Deyes, seyde

Source: Wiktionary


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; shabily 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 laminæ and the wall of the hoof.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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