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Seed·y a. [Compar. Seedier superl. Seediest.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law.
Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof.
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seedy
adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: seedless]
2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
[syn: scruffy]
3: 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" [syn: seamy, sleazy, sordid,
squalid]
4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: debilitated,
enfeebled, infirm]
[also: seediest, seedier]