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seedy
1. full of seeds
- as seedy as a fig
• Ant:
seedless
• Similar to:
black-seeded, multi-seeded, several-seeded, seeded, single-seeded,
one-seeded, one-seed, small-seeded, three-seeded, white-seeded
• Derivationally related forms:
seed
2. 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
• Similar to:
disreputable
• Derivationally related forms:
squalidness (for: squalid), sordidness (for: sordid), sleaziness (for: sleazy)
3. shabby and untidy
- a surge of ragged scruffy children
- "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
• Syn:
scruffy
• Similar to:
worn
• Derivationally related forms:
seediness
4. 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
• Syn:
ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly,
unwell, under the weather
• Similar to:
ill, sick
• Derivationally related forms:
unwellness (for: unwell)
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