Definitions for seedy

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seedy seed·y

Spelling: [see-dee]

IPA: /ˈsi di/

Seedy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in seedy (deesy).

Definitions for seedy

adjective

1. abounding in seed.
2. containing many seeds, as a piece of fruit.
3. gone to seed; bearing seeds.
4. poorly kept; run-down; shabby.
5. shabbily dressed; unkempt:
6. physically run-down; under the weather:
7. somewhat disreputable; degraded:

Origin of seedy

First recorded in 1565-75; seed + -y¹

Examples for seedy

But beneath all the shiny esteem, the 25-year-old Wright led a seedy double life.

What was it to me that he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin?

For the rest of you, here's a seedy little fact: Men of pretty much any age are mainly attracted to 20-year-olds.

You see the child looking pale and seedy, and say at once, "something on her mind."

A pair of seedy thoroughbreds, they was, seedy and down and out.

The Boulevard Carnot, the seedy, downtrodden street that leads out of town, proved the point on my last night there.

Gotham may mature into a thrilling mystery that explores corrupt cops and the seedy underworld.

ME3M was like online sex without the sex: seedy, dehumanized, segmented, and awkward—yet often still erotic.

Not so for Louis, who was impatient that so seedy a person should presume to stop them.

He was a seedy individual, with a face that was horribly pockmarked.