Synonyms for weedy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : wee-dee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwi di |
Top 10 synonyms for weedy
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- wizened
Définition of weedy
Origin :- early 15c., from weed + -y (2). Of persons, from 1852.
- adj thin
- Whether they were or not, did not appear; but they all had a weedy look.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- The gravel sweep was weedy, and grass had sprung up at the very jaws of the garage.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- I was growing up tall and weedy, and most like my strength went into that.
- Extract from : « Rosin the Beau » by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
- "We don't go quick, do we" he remarked, and looked on the weedy track for another.
- Extract from : « The Longest Journey » by E. M. Forster
- Dews hung red and grey on the weedy banks and wayside trees.
- Extract from : « The Short Works of George Meredith » by George Meredith
- More easily thought than done;—the goose stoutly resists, and refuses to accompany the fresh-water shark to his weedy home.
- Extract from : « Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches » by Henri de Crignelle
- "Nobby" was a weedy little Cockney who became my "batman," or servant.
- Extract from : « Mud and Khaki » by Vernon Bartlett
- In rugged and weedy places the hooks must be kept free from rocks and weeds.
- Extract from : « The Sea Shore » by William S. Furneaux
- Whatever was pinkish of it was now hidden by a skerry of weedy boulders.
- Extract from : « The Plattner Story and Others » by H. G. Wells
- A quill float is useful in weedy places, or about brush and logs.
- Extract from : « Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others » by James Alexander Henshall
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