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weedy

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weed·y  (wd)
adj. weed·i·er, weed·i·est
1. Full of or consisting of weeds: a weedy lawn.
2. Resembling or characteristic of a weed: a weedy plant.
3. Of a scrawny build; spindly or gawky.

weedi·ly adv.
weedi·ness n.

weedy [ˈwiːdɪ]
adj weedier, weediest
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) full of or containing weeds weedy land
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (of a plant) resembling a weed in rapid or straggling growth
3. Informal thin or weakly in appearance
weedily  adv
weediness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.weedyweedy - abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden"
weedless - free from weeds; "a weedless garden"
2.weedyweedy - being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

weedy
adjective weak, thin, frail, skinny, feeble, ineffectual, puny, undersized, weak-kneed (informal), namby-pamby, nerdy or nurdy (slang) a neurotic, weedy little man
Translations
weedy [ˈwiːdɪ] ADJ (weedier (compar) (weediest (superl)))
1. [ground] → lleno de malas hierbas or hierbajos
2. (Brit) (= scrawny) [person] → debilucho, desmirriado, enclenque
weedy [ˈwiːdi] adj [person] → gringalet
weedy
adj (+er)
groundunkrautbewachsen, voll(er) Unkraut
(inf) personschmächtig; (in character) → blutarm
weedy [ˈwiːdɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (fam) (person) → allampanato/a
weedy [ˈwiːdɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (fam) (person) → allampanato/a


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I found the hot stream broadened out to a shallow, weedy sand, in which an abundance of crabs and long-bodied, many-legged creatures started from my footfall.
So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.
Inside was a bit of kitchen-garden, bounded by a paling; beyond that some backs of detached houses; beyond them, again, a plot of weedy ground, a few wretched cottages, and the open, heathery moor.
 
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