WEEDY (weedier, weediest)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected forms: weedier    , weediest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does weedy mean? 

• WEEDY (adjective)
  The adjective WEEDY has 2 senses:

1. abounding with or resembling weeds

2. being very thin

  Familiarity information: WEEDY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEEDY (adjective)

Comparative: weedier   
Superlative: weediest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abounding with or resembling weeds

Context example:

weedy plants that take over a garden

Antonym:

weedless (free from weeds)

Derivation:

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being very thin

Synonyms:

boney; bony; scraggly; scraggy; scrawny; skinny; underweight; weedy

Context example:

pale bony hands

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

 Context examples 

I think there was some compromise in the cap; but otherwise she was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A group of North American weedy herbs belonging to the genus Solidago (family Asteraceae) with potential chemopreventive activities.

(Goldenrod, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore. Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky. Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)