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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having many seeds.
  2. adj. Resembling seeds or a seed.
  3. adj. Worn and shabby; unkempt: "He was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin” ( Mark Twain).
  4. adj. Tired or sick; unwell.
  5. adj. Somewhat disreputable; squalid: a seedy hotel in a run-down neighborhood.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Abounding with seeds; running to seed.
  2. Having a peculiar flavor, supposed to be derived from weeds growing among the vines: applied to French brandy.
  3. Full of spawn, as a seed-fish.
  4. Run to seed; no longer fresh, new, or prosperous; worn-out; shabby; poor: as, a seedy coat; to look rather seedy.
  5. Looking or feeling wretched, as after a debauch; not well; out of sorts.
  6. In glass-making, containing the bubbles called seed.
  7. n. See sidi.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. disreputable; run-down
  2. adj. full of seeds
  3. adj. untidy; unkempt
  4. adj. infirm; gone to seed
  5. adj. suffering the effects of a hangover
  6. adj. colloquial Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
  2. adj. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
  3. adj. colloq. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. shabby and untidy
  2. adj. morally degraded
  3. adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness
  4. adj. full of seeds

Etymologies

  1. seed +‎ -y (Wiktionary)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. exhausted
  1. spiritless

equivalents (14)

Other words for ‘seedy’

  1. worn
  2. disreputable
  1. ill
  2. sick
  1. small-seeded
  2. one-seed
  1. multi-seeded
  2. seeded
  1. single-seeded
  2. white-seeded
  1. black-seeded
  2. three-seeded
  1. several-seeded
  2. one-seeded

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. shabby
  2. disreputable
  3. threadbare
  4. run-down
  1. sleazy
  2. disheveled
  3. squalid
  4. slovenly
  1. broken-down
  2. tacky
  3. dilapidated
  4. dingy
  1. smelly
  2. bedraggled
  3. ill-fitting
  4. grubby
  1. haggard
  2. untidy
  3. creepy
  4. ratty
  1. worn-out

rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Edi
  2. Leidy
  1. Midi
  2. beady
  1. beedie
  2. deedy
  1. greedy
  2. midi
  1. needy
  2. reedy
  1. sheedy
  2. speedy
  1. tweedy
  2. weedy

reverse dictionary (14)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. seedy
  2. flophouse
  1. mangy
  2. seediness
  1. flea-bitten
  2. slipshod
  1. down-at-heel
  2. fleabag
  1. heel
  2. fringe
  1. shabby
  2. gin mill
  1. scuffy
  2. threadbare

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