weedy
Adjective
- Resembling a weed; thin, straggly, or full of weeds.
- abounding with or resembling weeds
- "a weedy path"
- "weedy plants that take over a garden"
Adjective Satellite
- being very thin
Adj
- Abounding with weeds.
- Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
- Consisting of weeds.
- Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
- Small and weak.
- Lacking power or effectiveness.
Examples
- a weedy attempt
- a weedy excuse
- a weedy garden
- a weedy lad
- a weedy motor
- a weedy species
- a weedy vine
- His Words With Friends rack was looking quite weedy after a few low-scoring plays.
- weedy corn
- weedy grounds
Origin / Etymology
From weed + -y.
Synonyms
boney, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, anemic, angular, anorexic, breakable, broken-down, carrion, damaged, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, dickless, effete, emaciated, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, faint, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, harmed, hurt, impaired, impotent, infirm, injured, languid, lank, lanky, leptosome, low, macilent, pencil-necked, powerless, prostrate, prostrated, puny, raddled, rangy, rawboned, reedy, resistless, sapped, skin and bones, slightsoft, softened, starved, susceptible, tender, thin as a rake, tired, torpid, undernourished, ungainly, unresistant, vincible, vulnerable, wasted, weak, weakened, weary, weedlike, weedy, wimpy, worn out, yielding
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
weedy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordweedy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
weedy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary