weedy

5 definitions found

weedy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  overgrown \overgrown\ adj.
     1. covered with growing plants.
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     2. abounded in usually unwanted vegetation. [Narrower terms:
        wooded (vs. unwooded); weedy]
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  Weedy \Weed"y\, a. [Compar. Weedier; superl. Weediest.]
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     1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy
        trophies." --Shak.
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     2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden;
        weedy corn.
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              See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. --Bryant.
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     3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses,
        and also of persons. [Colloq.]
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  Weedy \Weed"y\, a.
     Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
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           She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
                                                    --Dickens.
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weedy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  weedy
      adj 1: abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path";
             "weedy plants that take over a garden" [ant: weedless]
      2: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long
         scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny,
         underweight, weedy]

weedy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "weedy":
     botanic, bulbous, cereal, dense, exuberant, farinaceous,
     flourishing, fruitlike, fruity, gross, heavy, herbaceous, herbal,
     herbose, herbous, herby, impenetrable, jungled, jungly, leguminose,
     leguminous, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, plantlike,
     radicated, radiciform, radicular, rank, rhizoid, riotous, rootlike,
     thick, tuberous, unweeded, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian,
     vegetational, vegetative, weed-choked, weed-ridden