weedy
Origin of weedy
1Other words from weedy
- weed·i·ly, adverb
- weed·i·ness, noun
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How to use weedy in a sentence
What he first noted in her with wonder and admiration was the absence of weediness and flabbiness.
The Combined Maze | May SinclairIt is this lower weediness which evidently troubles the man who fashions his clothes.
On the Heels of De Wet | The Intelligence OfficerVery lovely indeed; made more so by her position next to the sallow weediness of the schoolteacher Stella Wainwright.
The Trial of Callista Blake | Edgar PangbornThere was not about him any sign that you could see of flabbiness or weediness.
The Combined Maze | May SinclairAnd Ranny despised the votaries of intellectual light; he more than suspected them of Weediness, if not of Flabbiness.
The Combined Maze | May Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for weedy
/ (ˈwiːdɪ) /
full of or containing weeds: weedy land
(of a plant) resembling a weed in rapid or straggling growth
informal thin or weakly in appearance
Derived forms of weedy
- weedily, adverb
- weediness, noun
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