dictionary definitions for "weedy"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  overgrown \overgrown\ adj.
     1. covered with growing plants.
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     2. abounded in usually unwanted vegetation. [Narrower terms:
        {wooded (vs. unwooded)}; weedy]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weedy \Weed"y\, a. [Compar. Weedier; superl. Weediest.]
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     1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy
        trophies." --Shak.
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     2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden;
        weedy corn.
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              See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. --Bryant.
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     3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses,
        and also of persons. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weedy \Weed"y\, a.
     Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
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           She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
                                                    --Dickens.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  weedy
      adj 1: abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path";
             "weedy plants that take over a garden" [ant: weedless]
      2: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long
         scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny,
         underweight, weedy]


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