crispness

crisp (kr

sp)

adj. crisp·er, crisp·est

1. Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle: crisp potato chips.

2. Pleasingly firm and fresh: crisp carrot and celery sticks.

a. Bracing; invigorating: crisp mountain air.

b. Lively; sprightly: music with a crisp rhythm.

4. Conspicuously clean or new: a crisp dollar bill.

5. Marked by clarity, conciseness, and briskness: a crisp reply. See Synonyms at incisive.

6. Having small curls, waves, or ripples.

v. crisped, crisp·ing, crisps

v.tr.

To make or keep crisp.

v.intr.

To become or remain crisp.

1. Something crisp or easily crumbled: The roast was burned to a crisp.

2. A dessert of fruit baked with a sweet crumbly topping: apple crisp.

3. Chiefly British A potato chip.

[Middle English, curly, from Old English, from Latin crispus; see sker-² in Indo-European roots.]

crisply adv.

crispness n.

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Noun	1.	crispness - a pleasing firmness and freshness; "crispness of new dollar bills"; "crispness of fresh lettuce" freshness - the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated; "she loved the freshness of newly baked bread"; "the freshness of the air revived him"
	2.	crispness - an expressive style that is direct and to the point; "the crispness of his reply" terseness - a neatly short and concise expressive style
	3.	crispness - firm but easily broken brittleness, crispiness breakableness - the consistency of something that breaks under pressure flakiness - having or breaking into thin crisp flakes

Translations

crispness [ˈkrɪspnɪs] N

1. (= crunchiness) [of lettuce, salad] → frescura f; [of apple, snow, bacon] → lo crujiente; [of linen] → lo almidonado

2. (= coldness, clarity) [of air] → lo vivificante, lo vigorizante; [of weather] → lo frío y despejado

3. (= sharpness) [of voice, sound, image] → nitidez f

4. (= briskness) [of tone, reply] → sequedad f

crispness [ˈkrɪspnɪs] n [apple, lettuce] → croquant m; [pastry] → croustillant m

crispness

n (of apple, lettuce) → Knackigkeit f, → Festheit f; (of bread, biscuits, bacon) → Knusprigkeit f; (of snow) → Verharschtheit f; (of leaves) → Trockenheit f; (of clothes) → Steifheit f; (of manner, voice, style of writing) → Knappheit f; (of air, weather) → Frische f; (of sound) → Klarheit f; (Sport, of shot) → Sauberkeit f

crispness [ˈkrɪspnɪs] n (of bacon, biscuit, snow) → friabilità; (of linen) → freschezza; (of apple) → sodezza; (of style) → vivacità
I like the crispness of new banknotes → mi piace toccare le banconote nuove di zecca

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Her visitor, settled on a small sofa that, with a palm-tree, a screen, a stool, a stand, a bowl of flowers and three photographs in silver frames, had been arranged near the light wood-fire as a choice "corner"--Maud Blessingbourne, her guest, turned audibly, though at intervals neither brief nor regular, the leaves of a book covered in lemon-coloured paper and not yet despoiled of a certain fresh crispness.

The Story of It by James, Henry View in context

The benches were not filled; for park loungers, with their stagnant blood, are prompt to detect and fly home from the crispness of early autumn.

The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context

When the weather was wet, he put up his umbrella over his stock in trade, not over himself; when the weather was dry, he furled that faded article, tied it round with a piece of yarn, and laid it cross-wise under the trestles: where it looked like an unwholesomely-forced lettuce that had lost in colour and crispness what it had gained in size.

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context

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