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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Alongside their release, the authority have planted suitable plants for the birds to feed on - including "weedy" wildflowers like fumitory and vetch.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
On a recent Sunday morning, in the weedy parking lot of a strip mall in Wayne, N.J.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
The other warrior looks pale and weedy next to the human-shaped hunk of muscle, but his blue steel armor is fine and polished to a high sheen.
From "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard
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
It was growing weedier and dirtier each minute.
From Told in the East by Talbot Mundy
The traveller had apparently taken his direction with care before he started, however, for he made his way straight to another rock, weedier and more overhanging than the first.
From Kings in Exile by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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 May Sinclair
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 Richard King
Even worse, it seems that the weediest species seem to thrive disproportionately in high CO2 environments.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Georgina Hogarth
The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."
From The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
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 John Habberton
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