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1. (adj.) seedy
containing many seeds.
2. seedy
bearing seeds.
3. seedy
poorly kept; run-down.
4. seedy
shabbily dressed; unkempt.
5. seedy
slightly ill.
Etymology: (1565–75)
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1. (adj) seedy
full of seeds
"as seedy as a fig"
2. (adj) scruffy, seedy
shabby and untidy
"a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
3. (adj) ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, 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"
4. (adj) seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid
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"
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1. seedy
abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds
2. seedy
having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy
3. seedy
old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat
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Sense: shabby
a rather seedy hotel.
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 Afrikaans: slonsig |
 Arabic: رَث، بالٍ |
 Bulgarian: западнал |
 Brazilian: modesto |
 Czech: zchátralý |
 German: schäbig |
 Danish: lurvet |
 Greek: παλιός, φθαρμένος, άθλιος |
 Spanish: cutre, sórdido, de mala m |
 Estonian: vilets |
 Farsi: فرسوده |
 Finnish: siivoton |
 French: minable |
 Hebrew: מוּזנָח |
 Hindi: गंदा |
 Croatian: otrcan |
 Hungarian: kopott(as külsejű) |
 Indonesian: buruk |
 Icelandic: subbulegur |
 Italian: squallido |
 Japanese: みすぼらしい |
 Korean: 허름한 |
 Lithuanian: apšepęs, aptriušęs |
 Latvian: noplucis; nožēlojams |
 Malay: buruk; selekeh |
 Dutch: sjofel |
 Norwegian: loslitt, ustelt |
 Polish: podły, nędzny |
 Persian: فرسوده |
 Pashto: زاړه (لكه كالي): توى شوى: |
 Romanian: dărăpănat, în paragină |
 Russian: потрёпанный; убогий |
 Slovak: schátraný |
 Slovenian: zanemarjen |
 Serbian: otrcan |
 Swedish: luggsliten, sjaskig |
 Thai: โทรม |
 Turkish: döküntü, köhne, kılıksız, |
 Taiwanese: 破舊的 |
 Ukrainian: пошарпаний, поношений |
 Urdu: بد وضع |
 Vietnamese: tiều tụy |
 Chinese: 褴褛的 |
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