Reedy

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Full of reeds.
  • adj. Made of reeds.
  • adj. Resembling a reed, especially in being thin or fragile: "reedy businessmen in severe three-piece business suitsā€ ( Jimmy Breslin).
  • adj. Music Having a tone like that of a reed instrument.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Full of, or edged with, reeds.
  • adj. high and thin in tone.
  • adj. tall and thin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
  • adj. Having the quality of a reed in tone, that is, harsh and thin, as some voices.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Abounding with reeds.
  • Consisting of or resembling a reed.
  • Noting a tone like that produced from a reed-instrument. Such tones are usually somewhat nasal, and are often thin and cutting.
  • Noting a quality of iron in which bars or plates of it have the nature of masses of rods imperfectly welded together.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. resembling a reed in being upright and slender
  • adj. having a tone of a reed instrument
  • Equivalent
    lean    thin    noisy   
    Cross Reference
    reedlike    coarse   
    Variant
    reediest    reedier   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Edi    Leidy    Midi    beady    beedie    deedy    greedy    midi    needy    seedy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    marshy    weedy    squeaky    sedgy    breathy    pebbly    ear-piercing    strident    miry    boggy