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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. abounding with or resembling weeds;
- Example: "a weedy path"
- Example: "weedy plants that take over a garden"

2. being very thin;
- Example: "a child with skinny freckled legs"
- Example: "a long scrawny neck"
[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.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy trophies." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. [1913 Webster] See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. --Bryant. [1913 Webster] 3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Weedy \Weed"y\, a. Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.] [1913 Webster] She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
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