Weedy

/ˈwiːdi/ · adjective

Meaning

Abounding with weeds..

Definitions by Sense

1. Abounding with weeds.
2. Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
3. Consisting of weeds.
4. (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
5. (figurative, of a person or animal) Small and weak.
6. (figurative, UK, Ireland, informal) Lacking power or effectiveness.

Example Sentences

weedy grounds

a weedy garden

weedy corn

1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), The Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, London: Richard Watkins, Book 1, p. 27, Wheate delighteth in a leuell, riche, warme, and a drye ground: a shaddowy, weedy, and a hilly ground, it loueth not […]

See, from the weedy earth a rivulet break And purl along the untrodden wilderness;

The wild rice has a peculiar weedy, smoky flavor, but if properly cooked is very delicious.

A faint weedy smell came up from the river […]

She had weedy hair of that vague color which is neither brown nor blond, that hasn't enough life in it to be ginger, and isn't clean enough to be gray.

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• weedier
• weediest

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