WEEDIER

WEEDY

scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy

(adjective) being very thin; “a child with skinny freckled legs”; “a long scrawny neck”; “pale bony hands”

weedy

(adjective) abounding with or resembling weeds; “a weedy path”; “weedy plants that take over a garden”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

weedier

comparative form of weedy

Source: Wiktionary


WEEDY

Weed"y, a. [Compar. Weedier; superl. Weediest.]

1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy trophies." Shak.

2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. Bryant.

3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons. [Colloq.]

Weed"y, a.

Definition: Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.] She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning. Dickens.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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