seedy

Significat (Anglès)

1. Literal senses:
2. Literal senses:
3. (colloquial) Literal senses:
4. (figuratively) Inferior in condition or quality.
5. (figuratively) Inferior in condition or quality.
6. (figuratively) Inferior in condition or quality.
7. (figuratively) Inferior in condition or quality.

Conceptes

caduc

malalt

🤢

Sinònims

shabby

squalid

indisposed

dilapidated

scruffy

poorly

sleazy

ragged

threadbare

ailing

feverish

worn-out

sickly

bedraggled

battered

ramshackle

sordid

rickety

lapsed

under the weather

seamy

decayed

unwell

peaked

void

decrepit

scrofulous

scrub

scrubby

shady

shaggy

shoddy

sick

🤢

abject

slatternly

sloppy

slovenly

sluttish

sorry

tatty

tumble-down

unclean

uncleanly

unfit

unkempt

unorganized

unsavory

untidily

venerable

weakly

Traduccions

schäbig

miteux

kılıksız

louche

schäbige

malsain

decrepito

hinfällig

baufällig

miserabel

abgelebt

gebrechlich

zwielichtig

vieux

🧓

douteux

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsiːdi/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: sedy

In summary

From Middle English sedy, equivalent to seed + -y.
The senses with negative connotation, first attested by 1725 in slang, originally especially “poor, out of money”, probably arose from the metaphor of a flower that has gone to seed, and is no longer considered beautiful. From there the word came to be used to describe unwell or past-their-prime people, and parallelly run-down places and by extension low-income or crime-affected urban areas. Compare the figurative expressions go to seed (by 1817), etc., originally in reference to plants, “cease flowering as seeds develop”.