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In some senses, weedy is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
left, long
WEEDY + NOUN
corn
PREP.
in
adj
Abounding with weeds.
weedy grounds
a weedy garden
Of, relating to or resembling weeds.
The wild rice has a peculiar weedy, smoky flavor, but if properly cooked is very delicious.
A faint weedy smell came up from the river […]
Consisting of weeds.
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead.
Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
a weedy species
a weedy vine
Small and weak.
a weedy lad
I’ll bring Grace, who is looking rather pale and weedy; growing too fast, I’m afraid.
adjective — being very thin
weedy grounds
Wiktionarya weedy garden
Wiktionaryweedy corn
WiktionaryThe grass was left long and weedy in the slate walk, and very often he wasn't cutting the grass on the other side of the hedge by the road at all.
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In some senses, weedy is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.