Seedier

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.]
     1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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     2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
        weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of


        French brandy.
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     3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
        miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
        he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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              Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
              say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seedy
       adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: {seedless}]
       2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
          was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
          [syn: {scruffy}]
       3: 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}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
          {squalid}]
       4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: {debilitated},
           {enfeebled}, {infirm}]
       [also: {seediest}, {seedier}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seedier
       See {seedy}