seedy meaning

seedy as an adjective

1. full of seeds
   • as seedy as a fig

   Opposite: seedless

   Similar: black-seeded, multi-seeded, seeded, single-seeded, small-seeded, three-seeded, white-seeded

   Related forms: seed

2. shabby and untidy
   • a surge of ragged scruffy children
   • he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin

   Synonyms: scruffy

   Similar: worn

   Related forms: seediness

3. somewhat ill or prone to illness
   • my poor ailing grandmother
   • feeling a bit indisposed today
   • you look a little peaked
   • feeling poorly
   • a sickly child
   • is unwell and can't come to work

   Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather

   Similar: ill

4. morally degraded
   • a seedy district
   • the seamy side of life
   • sleazy characters hanging around casinos
   • sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls
   • the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
   • the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal

   Synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

   Similar: disreputable

seedy in a sentence

• This is where you'll find Boston's seedy underbelly.
• Does Boston have a seedy underbelly?

How to pronounce seedy

seedy is pronounced /ˈsiːdi/ in British English and /ˈsidi/ in American English. It has 2 syllables, with the stress on the first syllable.

Words that rhyme with seedy

• greedy
• needy