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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
seedy \seed"y\, a. compar. seedier; superl. seediest.
   1. abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
      1913 webster

   2. having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
      weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
      french brandy.
      1913 webster

   3. old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
      miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
      he looked seedy; a seedy coat. colloq.
      1913 webster

            little flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
            say among us that practice the law. --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

   seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
      cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
      laminae and the wall of the hoof.
      1913 webster
see also:
seedier seediest seedy toe 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
seedy
     adj 1: full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" ant: seedless
     2: shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he
        was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- mark twain
        syn: scruffy
     3: 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" syn: seamy, sleazy, sordid,
        squalid
     4: weak and feeble; "i'm feeling seedy today" syn: debilitated,
         enfeebled, infirm
     also: seediest, seedier
see also:
seedless scruffy seamy sleazy sordid squalid 
debilitated enfeebled infirm seediest seedier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
154 moby thesaurus words for "seedy":
   mickey mouse, ailing, bad, base, beat-up, bedraggled, below par,
   blowzy, broken-down, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse,
   common, critically ill, debilitated, decayed, decaying, decrepit,
   deteriorated, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down, down-at-heel,
   down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
   drooping, droopy, enervated, enfeebled, faded, fagged, faint,
   fainting, faintish, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint,
   feeling something terrible, flagging, footsore, fourth-class,
   frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes,
   good and tired, grubby, holey, ill, in danger, in rags, in shreds,
   in tatters, indisposed, inferior, informal, irregular, jaded,
   laid low, languid, loose, low-class, low-grade, low-quality,
   low-test, lumpen, mangy, mean, messy, mortally ill, mussy,
   neglected, negligent, not quite right, off-color, out of sorts,
   overgrown, paltry, patchy, poky, poor, poorly, punk, ragged,
   raggedy, ratty, ready to drop, rocky, ruinous, run ragged,
   run-down, sagging, scraggly, scruffy, second-best, second-class,
   shabby, shoddy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickly, slack,
   slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid,
   squalid, tacky, taken ill, tattered, tatty, third-class,
   third-rate, threadbare, tinny, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torn,
   under the weather, unkempt, unneat, unrefreshed, unrestored,
   unsightly, untidy, unwell, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened,
   wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
   weary-worn, wilted, wilting, worn, worn out, worn-down





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