weedy

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

abounding with or resembling weeds“a weedy path”“weedy plants that take over a garden”
being very thin“a child with skinny freckled legs”“a long scrawny neck”Synonyms: scraggy boney scrawny skinny underweight

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]

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]

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]