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crummy

adj · noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈkɹʌmi/
  • rhymes with -ʌmi
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: K R AH1 M IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Bad; poor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack, ass, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crappo, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, gash, garbage, god-awful, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, shit, shite, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Full of crumb or crumbs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crumby

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: British-Columbia, Northwestern, US, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A cow with a crumpled horn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

of very poor quality; flimsy

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Variant of crumby, mid 19th c.

Across languages

Translations

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: galdós — bad, poor
  • Czech: mizerný — bad, poor
  • Czech: prachbídný — bad, poor
  • German: lausig — bad, poor
  • Hungarian: rossz — bad, poor
  • Hungarian: vacak — bad, poor
  • Polish: lichy — bad, poor
  • Polish: marny — bad, poor
  • Russian: никудышный (nikudyšnyj) — bad, poor
  • Russian: дрянной (drjannoj) — bad, poor
  • Spanish: pésimo — bad, poor
  • Spanish: feo — bad, poor
  • Spanish: desagradable — bad, poor
  • Spanish: mal — bad, poor
  • Spanish: de mala muerte — bad, poor