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crumbly

crumbly adjective: easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.

Adjective

crumbly (comparative crumblier or more crumbly, superlative crumbliest or most crumbly)

  1. Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.
    • Near-synonym: crumby
    Synonyms:
    crumby

Noun

crumbly (plural crumblies)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A decrepit old person.
    • If they are right, then why aren't we seeing old crumblies like you on the cover of Vogue?2005, Sharon Grehan, Random Acts of Malice, page 61

crumbly meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

crumbly in Tamil

உதிர்நிலை

crumbly in Malayalam

breakable, brittle, friable
എളുപ്പം പൊടിയുന്ന, വേഗംഉടയുന്ന, നുറുങ്ങുന്ന, എളുപ്പത്തിൽ പൊട്ടുന്ന, പൊട്ടുന്ന, ഭേദ്യ

crumbly in Tagalog

easy to break
damol

Examples of crumbly in a sentence

  • The blintse was a little pocket of delight, sweet raisins combined with the crumbly and savory cheese.
  • Do not overpulse, as this will make the patties crumbly and wet.
  • In Capri there are many small pasticcerias that sell this delicious, crumbly bitter chocolate and almond cake.

All 11 example sentences with crumbly

Synonyms of crumbly

Forms of crumbly

Adjective
comparativecrumblier
comparativemore crumbly
superlativecrumbliest
superlativemost crumbly
Noun
pluralcrumblies

Origin of crumbly

From crumble + -y.

Words formed from crumbly

Questions about crumbly

What does crumbly mean?
Crumbly means easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.
What is crumbly in Tamil?
Crumbly in Tamil is உதிர்நிலை. See Crumbly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crumbly?
Crumbly can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near crumbly in the dictionary

  1. crumbling skull rules
  2. crumbling up
  3. crumblingly
  4. crumblingness
  5. crumblings
  6. crumbly
  7. crumbs
  8. crumbs down
  9. crumbs up
  10. crumbum
  11. crumbums

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crumbly (page history and authors); crumbly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crumbly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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