seedy

形容有很多种子的，也常形容破败、低劣或不太体面的事物、地方或人。

💡 记忆钩子

把花想成“开过头、结了籽”的状态：字面上是果实多籽或有籽；引申后就是失去鲜活和体面、显得衰败寒酸，因此可以形容破旧的地方、低劣的东西或不太正派的环境。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“破败、寒酸、不太体面”的引申义，因为在普通阅读中常比字面的“有籽”更容易遇到。
不要把 seedy 只理解成“有种子的”；用于地方、环境或生活状态时，通常带有负面评价。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 多籽的

📖 形容水果或其他植物部分含有很多种子，强调种子数量多。

💡 常用“seedy + 水果”或“be seedy”表示某种水果籽很多。这个义项主要用于描述食物的内部特征，语气可以是中性的；不要因此推断食物一定不好吃或不新鲜。

This variety of grape is especially seedy.

这个品种的葡萄籽特别多。

The fruit was sweet but seedy.

这种水果很甜，但籽很多。
common 有籽的

📖 口语中表示某种水果或植物带有种子，不一定特别强调种子数量多。

💡 可用“seedy + 名词”描述带籽的水果，也可以用在简短的口语比较中。这个义项比 s1 更宽泛，实际使用时常和“多籽的”意义重叠。若只是说明是否含籽，现代英语里也常直接说有籽或无籽，以免造成程度上的误解。

colloquial

I prefer seedless grapes because seedy ones are messy to eat.

我更喜欢无籽葡萄，因为有籽的吃起来很麻烦。
core 破败寒酸的；不太体面的

📖 形容地方、环境、东西或有时形容人的状态很差，显得破旧、低劣、寒酸，或者带有可疑和不太正派的感觉。它把“花结籽后失去鲜亮”的形象引申成了失去体面、走下坡路的状态。

💡 常用“a seedy + 地方”或“a seedy-looking + 名词”，也可说某家旅馆、酒吧或街区“be seedy”。这个词通常带有明显贬义，不能只理解为“便宜”或“普通”；形容人时也可能暗示生活潦倒或行为可疑，因此使用时要注意礼貌和语境。

figuratively

They found a cheap room in a seedy hotel near the station.

他们在车站附近一家破旧寒酸的旅馆里找到了一个便宜房间。

The bar looked seedy, but the food was excellent.

那家酒吧看起来又破又不太正派，但食物非常好。

seedier comparative seediest superlative

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 4 组

morally degraded; ; ; ; - Seattle Weekly; - James Joyce

同义词集: seamy seedy sleazy sordid squalid

a seedy district

the seamy side of life

sleazy characters hanging around casinos

sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls

the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils

the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal

full of seeds

同义词集: seedy

as seedy as a fig

近似: seeded

somewhat ill or prone to illness; ; ; ; ;

同义词集: ailing indisposed peaked(p) poorly(p) sickly unwell under the weather seedy

my poor ailing grandmother

feeling a bit indisposed today

you look a little peaked

feeling poorly

a sickly child

is unwell and can't come to work

近似: ill, sick

shabby and untidy; ; - Mark Twain

同义词集: scruffy seedy

a surge of ragged scruffy children

he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin

近似: worn

🌳 词源

源自中古英语 sedy，相当于 seed 加后缀 -y。负面义可能来自花朵结籽后不再美丽的比喻，后来进一步用于形容衰败的人、地方和城市区域。

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”.

🔄 变式

seedier compar seediest superl

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