Crumbly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crumbly \Crum"bly\ (-bl[y^]), a.
     Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil."
     --Hawthorne.
  
     Syn: crimp.
          [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crumbly
       adj : apt to break into small fragments or disintegrate; "crumbly
             cookies"
       [also: {crumbliest}, {crumblier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "crumbly":
     breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby,
     crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crump, crushable, dainty,
     delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy,
     fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack,
     gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light,
     lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, pulverizable,
     pulverulent, puny, rubbery, scissile, shatterable, shattery,
     shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, triturable,
     unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish