Definition of "weedy" in Anglais

adjective

1. Abounding with weeds.

   • weedy grounds
   • a weedy garden
   • weedy corn
   • 1577, Barnabe Googe (translator), The Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, London: Richard Watkins, Book 1, p. 27, Wheate delighteth in a leuell, riche, warme, and a drye ground: a shaddowy, weedy, and a hilly ground, it loueth not […]

2. Of, relating to or resembling weeds.

3. Consisting of weeds.

   • 1917, James Joyce, “Flood” in Poetry, Volume 10, April-September, 1917, p. 73, A waste of waters ruthlessly Sways and uplifts its weedy mane, Where brooding day stares down upon the sea In dull disdain.

4. (botany) 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

5. (figurative, of a person or animal) Small and weak.

   • a weedy lad
   • 1924, Edith Wharton, The Spark (The Sixties), Chapter 2, in Old New York, New York: 1981, p. 146, Byrne was hurling himself across the field, crouched on the neck of his somewhat weedy mount […]

6. (figurative, UK, Ireland, informal) Lacking power or effectiveness.

   • a weedy excuse
   • a weedy attempt
   • a weedy motor
   • 2016, Orla Kiely, quoted in “Designs for life from Orla Kiely,” Irish Independent, 3 April, 2016, We wanted to make sure that our jewellery made a statement, that it wasn't wimpy or weedy.