covered with growing plants. [WordNet 1.5]
abounded in usually unwanted vegetation.
[Narrower terms: wooded
(vs. unwooded); weedy]
[WordNet 1.5]
Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
"Weedy trophies." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy
garden; weedy corn. [1913 Webster] See from the weedy earth a
rivulet break. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts
or horses, and also of persons. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Weedy \Weed"y\, a. Dressed in weeds, or mourning
garments. [R. or Colloq.] [1913 Webster] She was as weedy as in the
early days of her mourning. --Dickens. [1913 Webster] [1913
Webster]
Word Net
weedy adj1 abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy
path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden" [ant: weedless]
2 having unattractive thinness; "a child with
skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight] [also: weediest, weedier]
Moby Thesaurus
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-riddenEnglish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːdi
Adjective
- Small and weak
- Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.