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crisp

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of crisp

1 having a texture that readily breaks into little pieces under pressure

the bag of crisp cookies had a lot of crumbs on the bottom

Synonyms of crisp

brickle [dialect], brittle, crispy, crumbly, embrittled, flaky (also flakey), friable, short

Words Related to crisp

crackly, crisped, crispened, crunchy, crusty

breakable, delicate, fragile

Near Antonyms of crisp

elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant, resilient

strong, sturdy, tough

2 being clean and in good order

a pretty, crisp bedspread for the guest room

Synonyms of crisp

antiseptic, bandbox, groomed, kempt, neat, orderly, picked up, prim, shipshape, smug, snug, tidied, tidy, trig, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed

Words Related to crisp

dapper, natty, saucy, smart, spiffy, spruce

immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless

rakish, sleek, streamlined, taut

organized, straight, systematic

Near Antonyms of crisp

scruffy, seedy, shabby, slipshod, sloppy

dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, sordid, squalid

dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), rumpled, tousled, tumbled

disorganized, unsystematic

Antonyms of crisp

disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, messy, mussed, mussy, sloven, slovenly, unkempt, untidy

3 marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning

a crisp suggestion about what they could do with their boom box

Synonyms of crisp

aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail

Words Related to crisp

abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), short, snippety, snippy

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortened

meaty, substantial

meaningful, significant

Near Antonyms of crisp

pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

enlarged, expanded, supplemented

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated

Antonyms of crisp

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy

Synonym Discussion of crisp

fragile, frangible, brittle, crisp, friable mean breaking easily. fragile implies extreme delicacy of material or construction and need for careful handling.

- a fragile antique chair

frangible implies susceptibility to being broken without implying weakness or delicacy.

- frangible stone used for paving

brittle implies hardness together with lack of elasticity or flexibility or toughness.

- brittle bones

crisp implies a firmness and brittleness desirable especially in some foods.

- crisp lettuce

friable applies to substances that are easily crumbled or pulverized.

- friable soil

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