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. [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] 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]: seediest See {seedy}
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