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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. full of seeds;
- Example: "as seedy as a fig"

2. shabby and untidy;
- Example: "a surge of ragged scruffy children"
- Example: "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
[syn: scruffy, seedy]

3. somewhat ill or prone to illness;
- Example: "my poor ailing grandmother"
- Example: "feeling a bit indisposed today"
- Example: "you look a little peaked"
- Example: "feeling poorly"
- Example: "a sickly child"
- Example: "is unwell and can't come to work"
[syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]

4. morally degraded;
- Example: "a seedy district"
- Example: "the seamy side of life"
- Example: "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"
- Example: "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly
- Example: "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce
- Example: "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
[syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
   1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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   2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
      weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
      French brandy.
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   3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
      miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
      he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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            Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
            say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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   Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
      cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
      laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

seedy
    adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
    2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
       was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn:
       scruffy, seedy]
    3: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing
       grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a
       little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is
       unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed,
       peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the
       weather, seedy]
    4: 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" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid,
       squalid]