crumminess
- noun
- Informal
- I can't stand the crumminess of this restaurant!
Examples
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He was disappointed by the crumminess of the movie's special effects.
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The crumminess of the old building was evident.
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The crumminess of the old apartment made it hard to feel at home.
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Despite the crumminess of the food, the restaurant was always busy.
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The crumminess of the hotel room made our stay uncomfortable and disappointing.
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She was fed up with the crumminess of the food served at the restaurant.
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The team's performance this season was marked by the crumminess of their play and lack of enthusiasm.
Synonyms
The state of being unpleasant, harmful or wrong
A very bad quality that makes something unpleasant
A state of having low quality or too little of something
A quality of looking cheap and in bad taste
A state of being dirty or bad in a moral way, for example a filthy place
Very dirty and unpleasant places caused by poverty or lack of care
Being dirty and shabby in appearance because of old or untidy clothes
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crumminess comes from the adjective crummy plus the ending -ness, which means 'state' or 'quality'. Crummy probably comes from the simple word crumb, giving an image of something small, broken or of little value, so crumminess means 'the quality of being poor or unpleasant'.