weedy

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weedy

A weedy path winds through the overgrown garden.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Thin and physically weak: Describes a person, animal, or part of a body that is unattractively thin, scrawny, or lacking strength and vigor.
    • Full of or resembling weeds: Describes an area that is overgrown with unwanted plants (weeds) or a plant that has the weak, straggly, or invasive characteristics of a weed.
Usage and Examples

  • Describing a person or animal as thin and weak:

    • After his illness, he looked pale and weedy.
    • The weedy kitten struggled to keep up with its littermates.

  • Describing an area or plant as overgrown with or like weeds:

    • They neglected the garden, and it became weedy and unkempt.
    • The farmer was concerned about the weedy growth choking the crops.
Advanced Usage and Nuances
  • The term often carries a negative or disapproving connotation in both senses. When describing a person, it implies frailty and lack of robustness. When describing land or plants, it implies neglect, undesirability, or poor quality.
  • "Weedy" vs. "Skinny": While both can describe thinness, "weedy" more strongly suggests physical weakness and lack of substance, whereas "skinny" is a more neutral descriptor of thinness.
Variants and Related Words
  • Weed (n): A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
  • Weed (v): To remove weeds from an area.
  • Weeded (adj): Having had weeds removed (e.g., ).
  • Weediness (n): The state or quality of being weedy.
Synonyms
  • For "thin and weak": Scrawny, spindly, puny, feeble, gaunt.
  • For "full of weeds": Overgrown, unkempt, rank.
Antonyms
  • For "thin and weak": Sturdy, robust, muscular, brawny.
  • For "full of weeds": Manicured, cultivated, well-kept, tidy.
Idioms and Phrases
  • While "weedy" itself is not commonly used in idioms, it relates to the idiom "to grow like a weed", which describes something (often a child) growing very rapidly. Note that this idiom uses "weed" as a noun, not the adjective "weedy".
weedy

A weedy path winds through the overgrown garden.

Adjective
  1. being very thin
    • a child with skinny freckled legs
    • a long scrawny neck
  2. abounding with or resembling weeds
    • a weedy path
    • weedy plants that take over a garden

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