reedy

[ ree-dee ]

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adjective,reed·i·er, reed·i·est.

full of reeds: a reedy marsh.
consisting or made of a reed or reeds: a reedy pipe.

like a reed or reeds: reedy grass.
having a sound like that of a reed instrument.

Origin of reedy

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at reed, -y¹

Other words from reedy

reed·i·ness, noun

Words Nearby reedy

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How to use reedy in a sentence

Teens are shooting baskets on a cracked court amid a reedy field that stretches to a patch of woods, and a 1¼-mile loop of purpose-built single track.
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He heard the thin, reedy voice cry in his ear to "Block the entrances, block the entrances!"
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwood
I sat here with my wife the last afternoon before I went to the front, he said in his reedy old mans voice.
The Romance of His Life | Mary Cholmondeley
Thus the nest and its reedy pillars are firmly bound together.
Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester Keyser
Wild-fowl breed on its reedy lochs, and moor-fowl dwell on its heather hills.
The Norsemen in the West | R.M. Ballantyne

She strained her eyes and thought she made out a vague bulk moving toward the reedy point she had just quitted.
The Devil in Iron | Robert E. Howard

British Dictionary definitions for reedy

reedy

/ (ˈriːdɪ) /

adjectivereedier or reediest

(of a place, esp a marsh) abounding in reeds
of or like a reed

having a tone like a reed instrument; shrill or piping: a reedy voice

Derived forms of reedy

reedily, adverb
reediness, noun

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