'Seedy' definitions:
Definition of 'seedy'
From: WordNet
adjective
Full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
adjective
Shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain [syn: scruffy, seedy]
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Seedy'
From: GCIDE
- Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
- 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]
Synonyms of 'seedy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ailing,
- bad,
- base,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- below par,
- blowzy,
- broken-down,
- careless,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- common,
- critically ill,
- debilitated,
- decayed,
- decaying,
- decrepit,
- deteriorated,
- dilapidated,
- dingy,
- dowdy,
- down,
- down-at-heel,
- down-at-the-heels,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- faded,
- fagged,
- faint,
- fainting,
- faintish,
- fatigued,
- feeling awful,
- feeling faint,
- feeling something terrible,
- flagging,
- footsore,
- fourth-class,
- frayed,
- frazzled,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- full of holes,
- good and tired,
- grubby,
- holey,
- ill,
- in danger,
- in rags,
- in shreds,
- in tatters,
- indisposed,
- inferior,
- informal,
- irregular,
- jaded,
- laid low,
- languid,
- loose,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mean,
- messy,
- Mickey Mouse,
- mortally ill,
- mussy,
- neglected,
- negligent,
- not quite right,
- off-color,
- out of sorts,
- overgrown,
- paltry,
- patchy,
- poky,
- poor,
- poorly,
- punk,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- ratty,
- ready to drop,
- rocky,
- ruinous,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- scraggly,
- scruffy,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- sick,
- sick unto death,
- sickish,
- sickly,
- slack,
- slatternly,
- sleazy,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sluttish,
- sordid,
- squalid,
- tacky,
- taken ill,
- tattered,
- tatty,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- threadbare,
- tinny,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toilworn,
- torn,
- under the weather,
- unkempt,
- unneat,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- unsightly,
- untidy,
- unwell,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilted,
- wilting,
- worn,
- worn out,
- worn-down