seedy meaning and definition

SEEDY adjective

Definition of seedy (adjective)

1. full of seeds
   • "as seedy as a fig"
   • antonym: seedless
2. shabby and untidy
   • "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
   • synonyms: scruffy
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, under the weather, unwell
4. 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"
   • synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid