weedily
weedily adverb: in a weedy manner; feebly.
Adverb
weedily (comparative more weedily, superlative most weedily)
- In a weedy manner; feebly.
- Or to put it another way: could a song end your life? Could just one number, performed weedily by Keira Knightley at the beginning of this romcom, cause your body to self-combust at the prospect of enduring 90-odd minutes of a movie obsessed with authenticity but as phoney as a Miley Cyrus dance...2013 September 9, Paul MacInnes, “Can a Song Save Your Life?”, in The Guardian
- In a weedy state; full of weeds.
- The old-fashioned stoop, with its suggestive benches on either side, lay solitary and silent in the moonlight; the garden path, weedily overgrown since father's death, and sentineled here and there with ragged hollyhock, lay quiet and dew-laden […]1873, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 46, page 562
Forms of weedily
| comparative | more weedily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most weedily |
Origin of weedily
From weedy + -ly.
Questions about weedily
- What does weedily mean?
- Weedily means in a weedy manner; feebly.
- What part of speech is weedily?
- Weedily is an adverb.
Words near weedily in the dictionary
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