Adjective: seedy (seedier,seediest) see-dee
- Unpleasantly disreputable or morally degraded
"a seedy district";
- seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid, skanky [informal]
- Shabby and untidy
"he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin";
- scruffy, daggy [Austral, NZ, informal]
- Full of seeds
"as seedy as a fig"
- [archaic] Somewhat ill, feeling or being in bad health
"my grandmother was feeling seedy";
- ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather [informal], out of sorts [informal], off-colour [Brit, informal], grotty [Brit, informal], crook [Austral, NZ, informal], cruddy [informal]
Derived forms: seedier, seediest
See also: black-seeded, disreputable, ill, multi-seeded, one-seed, one-seeded, seeded, several-seeded, sick, single-seeded, small-seeded, three-seeded, white-seeded, worn
Antonym: seedless
Encyclopedia: Seedy