Synonyms of seedy

Adjective


1. seedy (vs. seedless), black-seeded, multi-seeded, several-seeded, seeded, seeded, single-seeded, one-seeded, one-seed, small-seeded, three-seeded, white-seeded

usage: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

2. scruffy, seedy, worn (vs. new)

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

3. ailing, indisposed, peaked(predicate), poorly(predicate), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy, ill (vs. well), sick

usage: 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"

4. seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid, disreputable (vs. reputable)

usage: 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"

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