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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 154 Moby Thesaurus words for "seedy": Mickey Mouse, 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, 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
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