seedy

Adjective

• Containing many seeds; also, shabby or disreputable.
• full of seeds
  • "as seedy as a fig"

Adjective Satellite

• shabby and untidy; ; - Mark Twain
  • "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"
• somewhat ill or prone to illness
• morally degraded; ; ; ; - Seattle Weekly; - James Joyce
  • "a seedy district"

Adj

• Literal senses:
• Containing or full of seeds.
• Literal senses:
• Seedlike; having the flavour of seeds.
• Literal senses:
• Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
• Inferior in condition or quality.
• Shabby, run-down, possibly connected with bad, dishonest or illegal activities, somewhat disreputable.
• Inferior in condition or quality.
• Untidy, unkempt.
• Inferior in condition or quality.
• Infirm, unwell, gone to seed.
• Inferior in condition or quality.
• Suffering the effects of a hangover.

Examples

• After drawing a seedy rack, he miraculously found a bingo.
• After last night’s party we were all feeling pretty seedy.
• His seedy, dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.
• Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
• With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.

Synonyms

ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, scruffy, seamy, sickly, sleazy, sordid, squalid, under the weather, unwell

Antonyms

seedless

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