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Heedy vs Weedy - What's the difference?

heedy | weedy |

As adjectives the difference between heedy and weedy

is that heedy is (obsolete) heedful; attentive while weedy is small and weak; scraggy; ungainly.

heedy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Heedful; attentive.
  • *, vol.1, ch.23:
  • *:A heedy Reader shall often discover in other mens compositions, perfections farre differing from the Authors meaning, and such as haply he never dreamed of, and illustrateth them with richer senses and more excellent constructions.

    • Derived terms

    * heedily * heediness

    weedy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Small and weak; scraggy; ungainly
  • Of or relating to weeds; consisting of weeds.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Weedy trophies.
  • Abounding with weeds.
    • weedy''' grounds; a '''weedy''' garden; '''weedy corn
  • * Bryant
    • See from the weedy earth a rivulet break.
  • (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.

    • Anagrams

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