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


Etymology

Adjective

weedy (comparative weedier, superlative weediest)

Abounding with weeds.

Of, relating to or resembling weeds.

Synonym: weedlike

Consisting of weeds.

(botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.

(figurative, of a person or animal) Small and weak.

Synonyms: scraggy, ungainly, Thesaurus:scrawny

(figurative, UK, Ireland, informal) Lacking power or effectiveness.

Synonyms: feeble, Thesaurus:weak

Anagrams

• Dewey

Source: Wiktionary


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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