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REEDY (reedier, reediest)
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, reediest Dictionary entry overview: What does reedy mean?
• REEDY (adjective)
The adjective REEDY has 2 senses:
1. having a tone of a reed instrument
2. resembling a reed in being upright and slender
Familiarity information: REEDY used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a tone of a reed instrument
Synonyms:
reedy; wheezy
Similar:
noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)
Derivation:
reed (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Resembling a reed in being upright and slender
Synonyms:
reedlike; reedy
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Derivation:
reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)
Context examples
The light at the top was suddenly whisked out, and from the darkness came a reedy, quivering voice. “I have a pistol,” it cried.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The thicket stretched down from the top of one of the sandy knolls, spreading and growing taller as it went, until it reached the margin of the broad, reedy fen, through which the nearest of the little rivers soaked its way into the anchorage.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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