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deedy

deedy adjective: industrious; active.

Adjective

deedy (comparative deedier, superlative deediest)

  1. Industrious; active.
    • The novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, asked by the London Times to give a brief account of her life, replied: "There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy." Deedy! This is one of those words that, once you have seen it, makes you wonder why it isn't in everyday use. The job interviewer, going...2004 December 31, John Derbyshire, “Yes, Un-Deedy”, in National Review
  2. Earnest; serious.
  3. (dialectal) Genuine, authentic; actual, real.

deedy meaning in Tamil

deedy in Tamil

கடினமாய் உழைக்கிற

Forms of deedy

comparativedeedier
superlativedeediest

Origin of deedy

From deed + -y. Cognate with Scots deedie, deedy (“active”). Compare also German tätig (“active”).

Words formed from deedy

Questions about deedy

What does deedy mean?
Deedy means industrious; active.
What is deedy in Tamil?
Deedy in Tamil is கடினமாய் உழைக்கிற. See Deedy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is deedy?
Deedy is an adjective.

Words near deedy in the dictionary

  1. deeds of assumption
  2. deeds of retirement
  3. deeds poll
  4. deedwork
  5. deedworthy
  6. deedy
  7. deeeath
  8. deef
  9. Deeg
  10. Deegan
  11. Deegans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deedy (page history and authors); deedy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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