seedy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective full of seeds
    • as seedy as a fig
  2. adjective satellite shabby and untidy
    scruffy.
    • a surge of ragged scruffy children
    • he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
  3. adjective satellite somewhat ill or prone to illness
    peaked; indisposed; unwell; sickly; under the weather; ailing; poorly.
    • 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
  4. adjective satellite morally degraded
    seamy; squalid; sleazy; sordid.
    • 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

WordNet

Seed"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Seedier ; superlative Seediest
Definitions
  1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
  2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of FRench brandy.
  3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. Colloq.
    Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith.

Webster 1913