weedy

adjective6

1. •
   Of, relating to or resembling weeds.

   • The wild rice has a peculiar weedy, smoky flavor, but if properly cooked is very delicious. — 1894
2. •
   (figurative) Small and weak.

   • I’ll bring Grace, who is looking rather pale and weedy; growing too fast, I’m afraid. — 1864
3. •
   (informal, figurative) Lacking power or effectiveness.

   • Everything in moderation is a bit of a weedy call to arms, but as a rule for living it’s hard to beat. — 2010
4. •
   Abounding with weeds.

   • weedy grounds
5. •
   Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.

   • […] and so your soyle being drayned and kept dry, all those wéedy kindes of grasse will soone perish. — 1614
6. •
   Consisting of weeds.

   • There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. — 1599