weed

1. 1.

   clear of weeds

   “weed the garden”

   Broaderremove

   Narrowerstub

Other forms of weed

plural

weeds·

past tense

weeded·

present participle

weeding·

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 weed

What does weed mean?

weed means "any plant that crowds out cultivated plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weed?

weed has 1 syllable: weed. In IPA it is /ˈwid/.

What is another word for weed?

Close synonyms include mourning band, pot, grass, green goddess, dope. 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.

What is the opposite of weed?

The recorded antonyms are cultivated plant.

Is weed a common word?

weed is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with weed?

2 words rhyme with weed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.