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[syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
overgrown \overgrown\ adj.
1. covered with growing plants.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. abounded in usually unwanted vegetation. [Narrower terms:
wooded (vs. unwooded); weedy]
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Weedy \Weed"y\, a. [Compar. Weedier; superl. Weediest.]
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1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy
trophies." --Shak.
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2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden;
weedy corn.
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See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. --Bryant.
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3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses,
and also of persons. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Weedy \Weed"y\, a.
Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
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She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
--Dickens.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
weedy
adj 1: abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path";
"weedy plants that take over a garden" [ant: weedless]
2: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long
scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny,
underweight, weedy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "weedy":
botanic, bulbous, cereal, dense, exuberant, farinaceous,
flourishing, fruitlike, fruity, gross, heavy, herbaceous, herbal,
herbose, herbous, herby, impenetrable, jungled, jungly, leguminose,
leguminous, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, plantlike,
radicated, radiciform, radicular, rank, rhizoid, riotous, rootlike,
thick, tuberous, unweeded, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian,
vegetational, vegetative, weed-choked, weed-ridden