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crisp
What does crisp mean?
crisp (adjective): having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use crisp in a sentence?
- Our customers in the produce department expect crisp apples and firm bananas. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce crisp?
/kɹɪsp/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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What does “crisp” mean?
being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
Not quite: that's what white means.
superfluous; exceeding what is necessary (and therefore no longer needed because other things fulfill its task or purpose)
Not quite: that's what redundant means.
having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short
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originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment
Not quite: that's what extraterrestrial means.
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