Meaning

4 senses
  1. Full of, or edged with, reeds.

  2. High and thin in tone.

    having a tone of a reed instrument

  3. Thin, slender

    resembling a reed in being upright and slender

  4. Imperfectly welded together in masses of rods.

    reedy iron

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English reedy, reedi, reeddy, equivalent to reed + -y.

From Middle English reedy, reedi, reeddy, equivalent to reed + -y.

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Forms

reedier, reediest
Comparativereedier Lesson
Superlativereediest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • resembling a reed in being upright and slender:reedlike
  • having a tone of a reed instrument:wheezy

Word family

3 related words
Relatedreed

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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