Synonyms for crusty
- adjective
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Gruff — short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature
gruff, surly, curmudgeonly, peevish, ill-natured, sour, cross, moody, harsh, testy, churlish, touchy, perverse, ill-humored, ill-humoured, waspish, crabbed, snappish, cantankerous, cranky, irascible, sullen
Other
Noun
1. Sleepy dust — dried eye mucus
sleepy dust informal, sleep, gound UK
Definitions
- adj. 1
Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
- adj. 2
Having a crust, especially a thick one.
- n. 1
Dried eye mucus.
I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.
Related words
- Word family
- cruddy
- Other spellings
- crustie
Forms
- Plural
- crusties → sleeps…
Example sentences
- surly The food was horrible, and the waiter, surly.
- gruff Yanni looks gruff but he's a very nice guy.
- peevish Tom woke up feeling rather peevish.
- inferior This novel of his is inferior to the previous one.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| crusty | rising | |
| surly | rising | |
| gruff | rising | |
| peevish | rising | |
| curmudgeonly | rising | |
| inferior | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- sour2
- 5 letters
- cross1, sleep1, harsh1, moody2, surly2, gruff1, testy2, gound
- 6 letters
- touchy2, cranky2, sullen2
- 7 letters
- crusted2, peevish2, waspish, crabbed1
- 8 letters
- inferior4, perverse2, churlish2, snappish
- 9 letters
- encrusted3, irascible4, crustlike, crustated
- 12 letters
- cantankerous4, curmudgeonly
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sour2 = 2 syllables).