crumby

Low quality, unpleasant

Crumby means covered with or full of crumbs: a crumby tablecloth, crumby fingers after eating crackers.

It's also a less common spelling of crummy, meaning shabby or of poor quality: a crumby apartment, feeling crumby after the long flight.

inferior

lousy

Of very poor quality

  • shabbyWorn and neglected
  • shoddyOf poor craftsmanship
  • poorLacking sufficient resources

worthless · substandard · second-rate · cheap · low-quality · mediocre · crappy · rotten · terrible · awful

rundown

dilapidated

Ruined through neglect

neglected · worn · deteriorated · seedy · dingy · squalid · tumbledown · derelict · battered · threadbare

texture

flaky

Crumbly or unreliable

sandy · mealy · friable · powdery · dusty · grainy · floury · particulate · fragments · morsels

messy

littered

Scattered with debris

untidy · disheveled · unkempt · slovenly · sloppy · disordered · dirty · grimy · sticky · smeared

Opposites
quality/value

crumbyexcellent

Of superior quality

great · wonderful · fantastic · superb · first-rate

Phrases
Family

crumb, crumbs, crummy, crumbly, breadcrumbs, crumbed, crumbing, breadcrumb, crumbier

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G