seedy
AdjectiveSynonyms:
scruffyailingindisposedpeaked(p)poorly(p)sicklyunwellunder the weatherseamysleazysordidsqualid
WordNet 3.0
Adjective (4)
- full of seeds“as seedy as a fig”
- shabby and untidy“a surge of ragged scruffy children”“he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin — Mark Twain”Synonyms: scruffy
- 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”Synonyms: ailingindisposedpeaked(p)poorly(p)sicklyunwellunder the weather
- 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”Synonyms: seamysleazysordidsqualid
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds. [1913 Webster]
2.Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy. [1913 Webster]
3.Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law.— Goldsmith.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]