seedier

ADJECTIVE

run-down, dilapidated

Synonyms

STRONGEST

crummy decaying decrepit dingy grubby scruffy shabby sleazy squalid tacky

WEAK

ailing beat up bedraggled dog-eared down-at-the-heel drooping droopy faded flagging frowzy gone to seed in a bad way mangy messy neglected old overgrown poor poorly ragged ratty sagging sickly slovenly tattered threadbare tired torn unkempt untidy unwell used up wilted wilting worn

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clean good neat nice respectable

WEAK

luxurious posh

Example Sentences

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Monarch numbers will probably stay lower than they were in a weedier world, but the butterflies lay enough eggs that they can bounce back a bit in just one season, Taylor said.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2014

The traveller had apparently taken his direction with care before he started, however, for he made his way straight to another rock, weedier and more overhanging than the first.

From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

It was growing weedier and dirtier each minute.

From Told in the East by Mundy, Talbot

The Humming-bird, growing weedier and weaker, revived in her presence; he relaxed a little of his moroseness and austerity.

From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May

They look weedier than what they call Front Street down to Cowper Centre.

From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Jewett, Sarah Orne