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seedier

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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; shabbily 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[ae] and the wall of the hoof.

Source : WordNet®

seedy
     adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" [ant: {seedless}]
     2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
        was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
        [syn: {scruffy}]
     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" [syn: {seamy}, {sleazy}, {sordid},
        {squalid}]
     4: weak and feeble; "I'm feeling seedy today" [syn: {debilitated},
         {enfeebled}, {infirm}]
     [also: {seediest}, {seedier}]

seedier
     See {seedy}
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