weedy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective abounding with or resembling weeds
    • a weedy path
    • weedy plants that take over a garden
  2. adjective satellite being very thin
    underweight; boney; scraggy; skinny; scrawny.
    • a child with skinny freckled legs
    • a long scrawny neck

WordNet

Weed"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Weedier ; superlative Weediest
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. "Weedy trophies." Shak.
  2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
    See from the weedy earth a rivulet break. Bryant.
  3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons. Colloq.
Weed"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. R. or Colloq.
    She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning. Dickens.

Webster 1913