seamy

1. 1.

   showing a seam

   Similarseamed
2. 2.

   morally degraded

   “a seedy district”

   “the seamy side of life”

   “sleazy characters hanging around casinos”

   “sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls”

   “the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils”

   “the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal”

   Synonymsseedysleazysordidsqualid

   Similardisreputable

Other forms of seamy

comparative or superlative

seamier

comparative or superlative

seamiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about seamy

What does seamy mean?

seamy means "showing a seam". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seamy?

seamy has 2 syllables: sea-my. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˈsimi/.

What is another word for seamy?

Close synonyms include seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seamy a common word?

seamy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.