weedy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
weedy
    adj 1: abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path";
           "weedy plants that take over a garden" [ant: {weedless}]
    2: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long
       scrawny neck" [syn: {scraggy}, {boney}, {scrawny}, {skinny},
       {underweight}, {weedy}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
overgrown \overgrown\ adj.
   1. covered with growing plants.
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   2. abounded in usually unwanted vegetation. [Narrower terms:
      {wooded (vs. unwooded)}; {weedy}]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weedy \Weed"y\, a. [Compar. {Weedier}; superl. {Weediest}.]
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   1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy
      trophies." --Shak.
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   2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden;
      weedy corn.
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            See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. --Bryant.
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   3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses,
      and also of persons. [Colloq.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weedy \Weed"y\, a.
   Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
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         She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
                                                  --Dickens.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "weedy":
      botanic, bulbous, cereal, dense, exuberant, farinaceous,
      flourishing, fruitlike, fruity, gross, heavy, herbaceous, herbal,
      herbose, herbous, herby, impenetrable, jungled, jungly, leguminose,
      leguminous, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, overrun, plantlike,
      radicated, radiciform, radicular, rank, rhizoid, riotous, rootlike,
      thick, tuberous, unweeded, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian,
      vegetational, vegetative, weed-choked, weed-ridden

    

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