crumbly

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: crum=bly

CIDE DICTIONARY

crumbly, a. 

 Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.  Hawthorne.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crumbly, adj. (crumblier, crumbliest) consisting of, or apt to fall into, crumbs or fragments.

Derivative

crumbliness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

crumbly

Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.