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seed·y

(sē′dē)

adj. seed·i·er, seed·i·est

1. Having many seeds.

2. Resembling seeds or a seed.

3. Worn and shabby; unkempt: "He was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin" (Mark Twain).

4. Somewhat disreputable; squalid: a seedy hotel in a run-down neighborhood.

5. Chiefly British Tired or sick; unwell.

seed′i·ly adv.

seed′i·ness n.

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seedy

(ˈsiːdɪ)

adj, seedier or seediest

1. shabby or unseemly in appearance: seedy clothes.

2. (Botany) (of a plant) at the stage of producing seeds

3. informal not physically fit; sickly

ˈseedily adv

ˈseediness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

seed•y

(ˈsi di)

adj. seed•i•er, seed•i•est.

1. containing many seeds.

2. bearing seeds.

3. poorly kept; run-down.

4. shabbily dressed; unkempt.

5. slightly ill.

[1565–75]

seed′i•ly, adv.

seed′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	seedy - full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" seedless - lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit"
	2.	seedy - shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain scruffy worn - affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"
	3.	seedy - 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" ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, under the weather, unwell, sickly ill, sick - affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
	4.	seedy - 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" sordid, squalid, seamy, sleazy disreputable - lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance

seedy

adjective

1. sleazy, sordid, squalid, low, nasty They suck you into their seedy world.

2. shabby, run-down, scruffy, old, worn, faded, decaying, grubby, dilapidated, tatty, unkempt, grotty (slang), crummy (slang), down at heel, slovenly, mangy, manky (Scot. dialect), scungy (Austral. & N.Z.) a seedy hotel close to the red light district
shabby smart, elegant, fashionable, posh (informal, chiefly Brit.), classy, swish (informal, chiefly Brit.), up-market, swanky (informal), top-drawer, ritzy (slang), high-toned

3. (Informal) unwell, ill, poorly (informal), crook (Austral. & N.Z. informal), ailing, sickly, out of sorts, off colour, under the weather (informal), peely-wally (Scot.) All right, are you? Not feeling seedy?

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

seedy

adjective

Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect:

bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare.

Informal: tacky.

Slang: ratty.

Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone to pot, past cure.

Translations

رَث، بالٍغَيْر صِحّي، مُتَوَعِّك

nemocnýzchátralý

lurvetuvel

flau schäbig unpässlich zwielichtig

huonomaineinenhuonovointinenlikainen

caduc louche minable vieux

kopottas külsejû

lasinn, slappursubbulegur

dall'aspetto malandato logoro

döküntükeyifsizkılıksızköhne pis

不舒服褴褛的

seedy

[ˈsiːdɪ] ADJ (seedier (compar) (seediest (superl)))

1. (= shabby) [hotel, nightclub] → sórdido, de mala muerte, cutre (Sp) ; [clothes] → raído, cutre (Sp) ; [person] → de pinta desastrada
a seedy-looking bar → un bar sórdido, un bar de mala muerte, un bar cutre (Sp)

2. (= unwell) I'm feeling seedy → tengo un poco de mal cuerpo
he looks a bit seedy → tiene mala cara

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

seedy

[ˈsiːdi] adj (= shabby) [person, hotel, street, area, club, bar] → miteux/euse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

seedy

adj (+er)

(= disreputable) person, character → zweifelhaft, zwielichtig; area, place → zwielichtig

(inf: = unwell) I feel seedy → mir ist flau (inf), → mir ist nicht gut; to look seedy → angeschlagen aussehen (inf), → nicht gut aussehen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

seedy

[ˈsiːdɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (fam) (sordid, shabby) → squallido/a
I feel decidedly seedy today → non mi sento affatto bene oggi

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

seed

(siːd) noun

1. the (part of) the fruit of a tree, plant etc from which a new plant may be grown. sunflower seeds; grass seed.

2. the beginning from which anything grows. There was already a seed of doubt in her mind.

3. (in a sporting competition etc) a seeded player.

verb

1. (of a plant) to produce seed. A plant seeds after it has flowered.

2. in golf, tennis etc, to arrange (good players) in a competition so that they do not compete against each other till the later rounds.

ˈseeded adjective

having been seeded. a seeded player.

ˈseedling (-liŋ) noun

a young plant just grown from a seed. Don't walk on the lettuce seedlings!

ˈseedy adjective

1. shabby. a rather seedy hotel.

2. ill or unhealthy. He's feeling a bit seedy.

ˈseediness noun

ˈseedbed noun

ground prepared for growing seeds.

go to seed

1. (of a person) to become careless about one's clothes and appearance. Don't let yourself go to seed when you reach middle age!

2. (of a place) to become rather shabby and uncared for. This part of town has gone to seed recently.

3. (also run to seed) (of a plant) to produce seeds after flowering.

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One day a shabby, miserable-looking driver, who went by the name of "Seedy Sam", brought in his horse looking dreadfully beat, and the governor said:

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There was one seedy French waiter, who was attempting to learn English in a house where he never heard anything but French; and the customers were a few ladies of easy virtue, a menage or two, who had their own napkins reserved for them, and a few queer men who came in for hurried, scanty meals.

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There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke.

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by-the-by--he's got a new curate: that seedy old fellow Mr.

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The fact is, she's feeling rather seedy, poor child.

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I feel infernally seedy. That cursed Channel passage--I tremble in my inmost stomach when I think of it.

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He was no longer the finest-looking man in the throng, and the bosses no longer made for him; he was thin and haggard, and his clothes were seedy, and he looked miserable.

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When the morning came at last, I was in a bad enough plight: seedy, drowsy, fagged, from want of sleep; weary from thrashing around, famished from long fasting; pining for a bath, and to get rid of the animals; and crippled with rheumatism.

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Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable.

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To begin with, Good insisted upon keeping on his new-found trousers, and a stout, short gentleman with an eye-glass, and one half of his face shaved, arrayed in a mail shirt, carefully tucked into a very seedy pair of corduroys, looks more remarkable than imposing.

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We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it.

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I am a seedy old fellow," said the Vicar, rising, pushing his chair away and looking down at himself.

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