Seely vs Seedly - What's the difference?
seely | seedly |
(obsolete) Lucky, fortunate.
(obsolete) Innocent; harmless.
(obsolete) Pitiable, deserving of sympathy; poor, miserable.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.57:
*:Whereas the poore, the banished, and seely servants, live often as carelesly and as pleasantly as the other.
(obsolete) Trifling, insignificant.
(obsolete) Silly, foolish.
Of, like, or relating to seeds; producing or bearing seeds; seedy.
*1829 , Joshua Major, A treatise on the insects most prevalent on fruit trees and garden ... :
*1894 , Adolf Bastian, Zur mythologie und psychologie der Nigritier in Guinea ... :
*1916 , Southern pharmaceutical journal:
*1992 , Baltasar Gracian, wit, and the Baroque Age: a rhetorical study:
As adjectives the difference between seely and seedly
is that seely is lucky, fortunate while seedly is of, like, or relating to seeds; producing or bearing seeds; seedy.seely
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)seedly
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Adjective
(en-adj)- The Onion, while in its seedly state is liable to be injured by the Slugs.
- The Kra of the sheep, when the sheep is killed, enters a new-born lamb and the ghost-sheep goes to the deadland for the use of ghost men« (s. Ellis), the Kra of the bush enters a seedly bush (the ghost-bush goes to deadland).
- After examining the contents the chemist replied: "Why, this is iron Pyrites, commonly known as fool's gold." "What is it worth?" asked the seedly individual. "Oh, about $4.00 a ton in car lots." "Just my luck," exclaimed the questioner.
- Another friend made all this explanation more detailed and informative: she added that a kiwi also looked, tasted, and was shaped like the prickly pear; she considered other details such as their sharing a seedly flesh, and their enhanced ...
