/ˈwiːdi/
- Abounding with weeds.
“weedy grounds”
“a weedy garden”
“weedy corn”
- Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
“The wild rice has a peculiar weedy, smoky flavor, but if properly cooked is very delicious.”
“A faint weedy smell came up from the river […]”
“She had weedy hair of that vague color which is neither brown nor blond, that hasn't enough life in it to be ginger, and isn't clean enough to be gray.”
- Consisting of weeds.
“There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.”
“Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead.”
“1917, James Joyce, “Flood” in Poetry, Volume 10, April-September, 1917, p. 73,
A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane,
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdai”
- Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
“a weedy species”
“a weedy vine”
“[…] and so your soyle being drayned and kept dry, all those wéedy kindes of grasse will soone perish.”
- figurativelySmall and weak.
“a weedy lad”
“I’ll bring Grace, who is looking rather pale and weedy; growing too fast, I’m afraid.”
“1924, Edith Wharton, The Spark (The Sixties), Chapter 2, in Old New York, New York: 1981, p. 146,
Byrne was hurling himself across the field, crouched on the neck of his somewhat weedy mount […]”
- Ireland, UK, figuratively, informalLacking power or effectiveness.
“a weedy excuse”
“a weedy attempt”
“a weedy motor”
Formsweedier(comparative) · weediest(superlative)