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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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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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