Seedy

Definition: Seedy

Seedy

Adjective

1. Full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig".

2. Shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain.

3. Morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal".

4. Weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "seedy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1820. (references)

Note: Seedy \Seed"y\, adjective. [Comparative Seedier; superlative Seediest.]. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Seedy

Deterioration

Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless).

Disease

Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary.

Fatigue

Worn, worn out; battered,worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.

Poverty

Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.

Weakness

Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.

Crosswords: Seedy

Let's cut out their kidneys and sell them to the black market and leave them in a seedy motel bathtub full of ice. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

I don't like the way this script of ours has turned out. It's turning into a seedy little drama (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Lay your seedy judgements, who says they're part of our lives (Notorious; performing artist: Duran Duran)

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Music

• Seedy Compilation (reference)

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Expressions using "seedy": look seedy ♦ seedy looking ♦ seedy toe. Additional references.

Beginning with "seedy": seedy-looking, seedy-sounding.

Albanian

me farë, i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, ill, invalid, morbid, noisome, pathological, patient, sick, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), i plotë me farë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثير البذور, ‏متوعك (indisposed, out of health, poorly, shaky, sickly, sufferer, unwell), ‏متبزر, ‏غير طبيعي (off color, off colour, preternatural, unnatural, violent, weird), ‏رث (dowdy, down, dungy, heel, inherit, mangy, outworn, shabby, slipshod, threadbare, worn, worn out), ‏ردئ السمعة, ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, disputable, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), семест, в лошо настроение (ill-humored, ill-humoured, low-spirited, mean), оръфан (dilapidated, frayed), опърпан (disreputable, down at heel, shabby), неразположен (averse, chippy, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of sorts, poorly, queer, squeamish, under the weather, unwell), занемарен (neglected, ragged, run down, shabby, sleazy, squalid, uncultivated, unkempt, untended), пълен със семена, долнопробен (cheap, hedge, shady, trashy). (various references)

Chinese 

多种子. (various references)

Czech

pochybný (devious, disreputable, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, murky, problematical, questionable, seamy, shady, specious, suspect, unsavory), plný jadérek, ošumìlý (disreputable, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, scruffy, shabby, shoddy, threadbare). (various references)

Farsi 

مندرس (Rundown, Threadbare), تخمی (Germinal), تخم دار, ازکارافتاده (Effete, Lameduck, Obsolete, Sear), بتخم افتاده . (various references)

Finnish

renttumainen (seedy-looking), nukkavieru (seedy-looking, shabby, threadbare). (various references)

French

râpé, plein de pépins (seed), patraque, miteux, minable, mal fichu, de mauvaise réputation, délabré. (various references)

German

schäbige (dingy, dowdily, shabby, sordidly, tackily), schäbig (cheap, dingily, disreputable, dowdy, mangy, mean, measly, moldy, paltry, pokily, poky, poor, raggedly, scabby, seedily, shabbily, shabby, shoddily, shoddy, sordid, stingy, tackily, tacks, tacky, threadbare, tinny). (various references)

Greek 

σπορώδησ, σποριασμένοσ, ελεεινόσ (abject, beggarly, deplorable, disgraceful, forlorn, haggard, miserable, piteous, pitiable, scrub, scrubby, sorry, wretched), λυωμένοσ (molten). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא �'רעי� ים, מוז� ח (abandoned, forsaken, neglected, slipshod, tacky, unkempt), מרופט (ragged, shabby, tattered, threadbare). (various references)

Hungarian

magvas (pithy). (various references)

Italian

pieno di semi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見窄らしい (shabby), 見すぼらしい (shabby), よそ行き (according to, appears like, bell sounding, bitter gourd, company manners, from, going out, of all things, one's best clothes, out of, shabby, since, than, to be, to come, to go, tottering, totteringly, unsteady on its feet, weak from old age, with tottering steps, worn-out, wrinkled-up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よれよれ (shabby, worn-out, wrinkled-up), みすぼらしい (shabby). (various references)

Korean 

�"�가 많은. (various references)

Manx

treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing), rassagh (seed-producing;ripping, seminal), chingyssagh (painful), caihagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

eedysay.(various references)

Portuguese

puído (shabby, threadbare), gasto (consumption, cost, effete, exhausted, expenditure, expense, impoverished, jaded, offscourings, old, out, outgo, shabby, spent, threadbare, trite, untrue, waste, wear), com muitas sementes, cheio de sementes. (various references)

Romanian

uzat (cast off, decrepit, effete, jaded, mangy, napless, obsolete, outworn, peeled, shabby, spent, used, well worn, worn out), rupt (by the board, out at, ragged, ruptured, shabby, torn), ros (gnawed, jaded, napless, obsolete, threadbare), ponosit (cast off, decrepit, shabby), plin de seminţe, murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), mahmur (dizzy, maudlin, sleepy), indispus (ailing, distempered, hipped, in a pet, indisposed, Moody, out of order, out of temper, poorly, queer, unwell, upset), bolnãvicios (cranky, delicate, dicky, diseased, frail, invalid, pasty, sickly, unhealthy, valetudinarian, weakly, weedy). (various references)

Russian 

нездоровый (ailing, dicky, diseased, doughy, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, poorly, under the weather, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsound, unwell, unwholesome), наполненный семенами, зернистый;потрепанный, поношенный (grey headed, shabby, time worn, time-worn, well worn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pun semenja. (various references)

Spanish

granado (pomegranate). (various references)

Swedish

sjaskig (blowzy, dowdy, flea-bitten, grubby, scrubby, scruffy, shabby, sleazy, tattered), krasslig (ailing, bad, cachectic, ill, off color, off colour, under the weather, unwell). (various references)

Thai

ไม่สบาย (Dicky), ทรุ�"โทรม (mean), ซึ่งมีเมล็�"มาก. (various references)

Turkish

tohumlu, rahatsız (ailing, bad, comfortless, constrained, diseased, disturbed, ill, in bad health, incommodious, indisposed, out of sorts, poorly, queer, sick, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, unwell, worrisome), perişan (confused, dead beat, dead end, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), keyifsiz (ailing, blue, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, doleful, down, humorless, humourless, in the doldrums, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, poor spirited, poorly, queer, sick, under the weather, unwell), kılıksız (dowdy, dowdyish, down heels, down the heels, draggled, frumpish, hangdog, mean, poky, ratty, shabby, sleazy, slovenly, untidy), hasta gibi, hırpani (dowdy, shabby, slatternly, sleazy, ungainly, unkempt), çekirdekli (nucleate, pipy). (various references)

Ukrainian

зернистий (grainy, granular, granulated), поношений (bare, frayed, mangy, napless, old, ole, ratty, reach-me-down, sere, time worn, well worn, worn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sắp kết hạt xơ xác khó ở, đầy hạt. (various references)

Misspellings

"Seedy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: edey, esediye, feedy, peedy, Saeedi, saey, saidy, seaty, seddy, sede, sedgy, sedi, Sediq, seede, seedo, seemy, seery, seety, seey, Seeya, Seidh, Seidl, seido, sendy, Seoudi, seudo, sevy, Seydo, sezy, sheady, Sheezdi, sidy, sledy, Speddy, stedy, steedy, suedey, suedy, syd, zedy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dees, deys, dyes, eyed, eyes, seed.

-2 letters: dee, dey, dye, eds, eye, see, yes.

-3 letters: de, ed, es, ye.

+1 letter: debyes, emydes, redyes, speedy, yessed.

+2 letters: deejays, densely, ecdyses, enskyed, essayed, eyelids, geodesy, hayseed, heydeys, medleys, moseyed, redeyes, seedily, yeasted.

+3 letters: andesyte, beeyards, birdseye, deadeyes, decayers, decoyers, delayers, dovekeys, doyennes, dyeweeds, ecdysone, edgeways, encysted, estrayed, eyedness, eyedrops, eyeshade, goldeyes, hayseeds, jerseyed, mayweeds, overdyes, oystered, restyled, sedately, speedily, speedway, storeyed, surveyed, syndeses, syphered, weekdays, yearends, yielders, yodelers.