Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
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Friable
//ˈfɹaɪəbl̩//
Synonyms for "friable" (30 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (15)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ψαθυρός adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Armenian
4 entries- փխրուն adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- փխրուն adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- փուխր adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- փուխր adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Belarusian
2 entries- дру́злы adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- пу́хкі adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ронлив adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- рохкав adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- сипкав adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- трошлив adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Finnish
3 entries- hapero adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- hauras adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- irtonainen adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
French
4 entries- cassant adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- friable adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- friable adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- lâche adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
German
4 entries- bröckelig adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- bröselig adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- bröselig adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- brüchig adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Irish
1 entries- briosc adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Italian
3 entries- allentado adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- friabile adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- sfoglioso adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Macedonian
3 entries- ро́нлив adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- си́плив adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- тро́шлив adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Māori
4 entries- ioio adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- marewa adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- ngahoro adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- ngahoro adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Norman
2 entries- friabl'ye adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- friabl'ye adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یوفقه adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Polish
2 entries- kruchy adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- sypki adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Portuguese
1 entries- friável adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Romanian
4 entries- casant adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- fragil adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- friabil adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- friabil adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Russian
4 entries- кроша́щийся adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- ло́мкий adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- рассы́пчатый adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- ры́хлый adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- prhak adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- sipak adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- sipkav adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Spanish
4 entries- desmenuzable adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- flojo adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- friable adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- frágil adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Swedish
1 entries- lucker adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Turkish
1 entries- ezilgen adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
Tày
2 entries- bông adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- bông adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Ukrainian
4 entries- крихки́й adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- ламкий adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- пухки́й adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
- сипки́й adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tơi adj (easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder)
- tơi adj (loose and large-grained in consistency)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
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So while two men under his directions were digging the grave with sticks in the friable granitic soil, he superintended the costume of the other actors in the drama.
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It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.