Meaning & Definition of Seedy in English
English⟶
Seedy
/sidi/
adjective
1. Full of seeds
- "As seedy as a fig"
synonym:
- seedy
2. Shabby and untidy
- "A surge of ragged scruffy children"
- "He was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- mark twain
synonym:
- scruffy,
- seedy
3. 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"
synonym:
- ailing,
- indisposed,
- peaked(p),
- poorly(p),
- sickly,
- unwell,
- under the weather,
- seedy
4. 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"
synonym:
- seamy,
- seedy,
- sleazy,
- sordid,
- squalid