seedy
pronunciation
How to pronounce seedy in British English:
UK [ˈsi:di]
How to pronounce seedy in American English:
US [ˈsidi]
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- Adjective:
- full of seeds
- shabby and untidy
- morally degraded
- weak and feeble
Word Origin
- seedy (adj.)
- mid-15c., "fruitful, abundant," from seed (n.) + -y (2). From 1570s as "abounding in seeds." Meaning "shabby" is from 1739, probably in reference to the appearance of a flowering plant that has run to seed. Related: Seediness.
Example
- 1. A seedy and rundown photographer 's studio .
- 2. Like some seedy racketeer , the delinquents in pyongyang had extorted a generous payment in exchange for talks about giving up their pursuit of nuclear weapons .
- 3. Mantel 's ninth novel is a beyond-black comedy about seedy , exhausted millennium-era britain and an obese , traumatised medium called alison who is cursed with the gift of second sight .
- 4. Dill grumbles , looking utterly disappointed in his best friend , his once confidante in seedy one night stands , but not my brother anymore .
- 5. Governments outlawed much of what was the bottom end of the housing market - the derelict apartment buildings , seedy hotels , and rooming houses - while legalizing vagrancy .