seedy

[Seed·y]

When a place is seedy, it's sleazy, run down not the kind of place you'd take your mom. The East Village of New York was once known for being seedy, but now it's safe for children of all ages.

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Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

Adjective S.
weak and feeble; "I''m feeling seedy today"

Adjective S.
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

Adjective
full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

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


superl.
Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

superl.
Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.

superl.
Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.


Seedy

Seed"y , a. [Compar. Seedier ; superl. Seediest.] 1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds. 2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of FRench brandy. 3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.]
Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the lamin'91 and the wall of the hoof.

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

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Usage Examples

Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

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