Search Result:seedy
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˋsidI 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˊsiːdi 〕
Overview of adj seedy
The adj seedy has 4 senses
- seedy -- (full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig")
- scruffy, seedy -- (shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain)
- ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy -- (somewhat ill or prone to illness; "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")
- seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid -- (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")