CRUMBLY (crumblier, crumbliest)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: crumblier    , crumbliest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crumbly mean? 

• CRUMBLY (adjective)
  The adjective CRUMBLY has 1 sense:

1. easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder

  Familiarity information: CRUMBLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUMBLY (adjective)

Comparative: crumblier   
Superlative: crumbliest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder

Synonyms:

crumbly; friable

Context example:

crumbly cookies

Similar:

breakable (capable of being broken or damaged)

Derivation:

crumb (small piece of e.g. bread or cake)

crumbliness (excessive breakableness)

 Context examples 

But there is a bunch of oxygen: The lunar regolith - the crumbly top layer of dirt and rubble on the Moon's surface - is loaded with it.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the footpaths it still lay as white as when it fell.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)