WEEDY
What does "WEEDY" mean?
Full of or overgrown with weeds, or (of a person) thin and weak-looking.
Meanings
- Overgrown with or characterized by weeds. The abandoned lot was a weedy tangle by July.
- Thin, frail, or feeble in appearance, especially of a person. The weedy recruit struggled with the heavy pack. informal
Word origin
From 'weed' (Old English 'weod', a wild plant) plus the adjective suffix '-y'; the 'thin person' sense draws on the image of a spindly, straggling weed.
Remember it
WEEDY has a double-E like a long stretch of overgrown field - two weeds standing side by side in the middle of the word.
A little poem
Through the cracked lot the weedy green still climbs,
indifferent to our seasons or our times.
couplet
What it teaches
What we call weedy is just life thriving where we didn't plan for it - persistence wearing the wrong label.
Quick facts
What does WEEDY mean?
Full of or overgrown with weeds, or (of a person) thin and weak-looking.
Is WEEDY a valid word?
Yes — WEEDY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WEEDY?
WEEDY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does WEEDY come from?
From 'weed' (Old English 'weod', a wild plant) plus the adjective suffix '-y'; the 'thin person' sense draws on the image of a spindly, straggling weed.
What can WEEDY teach us?
What we call weedy is just life thriving where we didn't plan for it - persistence wearing the wrong label.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.