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weedy Definition

weedy ()

adjective weedi·er, weedi·est

  1. having weeds; full of weeds
  2. of or like a weed or weeds, as in rapid, rank growth
  3. lean, lanky, ungainly, etc.

weedy Related Forms
weedi·ness noun
weedy Usage Examples

Preposition: in

  • summer: It can be a bit weedy in the summer.

Modifies a noun

  • relative: Very little is thus known about whether weedy relatives have benefited from the acquisition of crop genes.
  • specie: Intermittent flooding will reduce the incidence of unwanted weedy species.
  • rock: Put a scad or mackerel body in the bait cage & pop it down near some weedy rocks.
  • field: We continued on searching all the weedy fields we could find.
  • water: Remember when fishing weedy waters or where snags might be a problem, the heavier gage wire provides strength to land such quality fish.
  • area: At low tide look for a shallow, sandy, weedy area.

Modifying Another Word

  • rather: The top part of the canal is rather weedy, which slowed us down.
  • quite: In these sections where the water runs faster and is quite weedy in the summer months, lie the haunts of very large barbel.
  • very: Duncan, whose swim was very weedy, had the misfortune to lose seven good fish.
  • too: When he arrived he discovered that swim was too weedy so walked the rest of the lake and found some baliffs to chat to.
  • so: That was one of the main problems on the Road Lake, it was ever so weedy.
  • little: Sound effects are good, but the Jackal sounds a little weedy.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: It is however very handy when you sail on a venue that gets weedy in summer like mine.
  • become: The East End is the most popular boating area, as the West End can become weedy in the summer months.
  • leave: In drilled dwarf beans left weedy through to harvest yield losses can range from 0 to 90 % .
  • look: The lake was looking very weedy, and for late June already very low.
  • sound: And Ryo's keyboard melody that goes through the track always sounds horribly weedy live.

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