| Pronunciation: | | 'seedee
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| Matching Terms: | | seed, seed beetle, seed catalog, seed catalogue, seed coat, seed corn, seed fern, seed grain, seed lac, seed leaf, seed oyster, seed pearl, seed plant, seed shrimp, seed stock, seed vessel, seed weevil, seedbed, seedbox, seedcake, seedcase, seedcod, seeded, seeded player, seeded raisin, seeder, seediness, seed-lac, seedless, seedless raisin, seedlike, seedling, seedlip, seedman, seedness, seedpod, seedsman, seedtime
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | debilitated, disreputable, enfeebled, infirm, scruffy, seamy, seeded, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unhealthy, worn |
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| | Antonyms: | | seedless |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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