adjective
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full of or containing weeds
weedy land
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(of a plant) resembling a weed in rapid or straggling growth
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informal thin or weakly in appearance
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of weedy
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at weed 1, -y 1
Example Sentences
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A weedy meadow Full of burdock and daisies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Consequently, certain fast-growing, weedy species, including macroalgae, cyanobacteria, and fire coral, thrive in the absence of competitors, spreading into the vacant spaces left by the decimated corals.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
Brown spots, weedy spots, soggy areas and excessive water on the sidewalk or driveway are all signs of an irrigation system that may need attention.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Their masquerade is likely why they don’t have the same leaf-shaped camouflage appendages the leafy seadragon and common or weedy seadragon use to blend in.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 7, 2024
For the first few miles the Stampede Trail was well graded and led past cabins scattered among weedy stands of spruce and aspen.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Monarch numbers will probably stay lower than they were in a weedier world, but the butterflies lay enough eggs that they can bounce back a bit in just one season, Taylor said.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2014
They look weedier than what they call Front Street down to Cowper Centre.
From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Jewett, Sarah Orne
Beneath it all I know there is a strata of the Magnificent, but the surface-ground is weedier than ever.
From Over the Fireside with Silent Friends by King, Richard
The Humming-bird, growing weedier and weaker, revived in her presence; he relaxed a little of his moroseness and austerity.
From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May
It was growing weedier and dirtier each minute.
From Told in the East by Mundy, Talbot
Even worse, it seems that the weediest species seem to thrive disproportionately in high CO2 environments.
From Time Magazine Archive
The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."
From The Tree of Heaven by Sinclair, May
For of all the stagnant ponds I ever beheld, it is the greenest and weediest.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina
Had I not a hundred times been told, when sent to the wood-pile or the weediest part of the garden in my youthful days, that "Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do?"
From Helen's Babies by Habberton, John
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