crusty

Other forms of crusty

comparative or superlative

crustier

comparative or superlative

crustiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crusty

What does crusty mean?

crusty means "having a hardened crust as a covering". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crusty?

crusty has 2 syllables: crus-ty. The stress falls on "crus". In IPA it is /ˈkɹʌsti/.

What is another word for crusty?

Close synonyms include crusted, encrusted, crustlike, curmudgeonly, gruff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crusty a common word?

crusty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.