Crummy
adjective
Of poor quality; bad or not performing well.
My car is so crummy that it breaks down all the time.
Often appears as...
- crummy job
- crummy food
Usage tips
Informal
adjective
Dirty, unpleasant, or not agreeable.
His room is crummy and unclean.
Often appears as...
- crummy place
- crummy condition
Usage tips
Informal
adjective
Sick, unwell or feeling unhappy.
I have been feeling crummy for the past few days.
Often appears as...
- feel crummy
- look crummy
Usage tips
Informal
adjective
Of poor quality; bad or not performing well.
My car is so crummy that it breaks down all the time.
Often appears as...
- crummy job
- crummy food
Usage tips
Informal
adjective
Dirty, unpleasant, or not agreeable.
His room is crummy and unclean.
Often appears as...
- crummy place
- crummy condition
Usage tips
Informal
adjective
Sick, unwell or feeling unhappy.
I have been feeling crummy for the past few days.
Often appears as...
- feel crummy
- look crummy
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Quality Judgement
Use 'crummy' to express dissatisfaction with the quality of objects or situations.
The hotel we stayed at was pretty crummy.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Tone
'Crummy' is casual and best suited for informal conversations, not formal writing.
She got a crummy score on her test.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Flavor
Adding 'crummy' may convey your emotional disappointment, not just objective observation.
I feel bad about giving her such a crummy gift.
Pro Tip 1/3Quality Judgement
Use 'crummy' to express dissatisfaction with the quality of objects or situations.
The hotel we stayed at was pretty crummy.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Tone
'Crummy' is casual and best suited for informal conversations, not formal writing.
She got a crummy score on her test.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Flavor
Adding 'crummy' may convey your emotional disappointment, not just objective observation.
I feel bad about giving her such a crummy gift.
Pro Tip 1/3Quality Judgement
Use 'crummy' to express dissatisfaction with the quality of objects or situations.
The hotel we stayed at was pretty crummy.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Tone
'Crummy' is casual and best suited for informal conversations, not formal writing.
She got a crummy score on her test.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Flavor
Adding 'crummy' may convey your emotional disappointment, not just objective observation.
I feel bad about giving her such a crummy gift.
Never forget "Crummy"
Humans forget easily. That's why you should download WordUp: Smart reminders, word games, AI practice, and much more!
Video examples
Angela Belcher: Using...
We engineered a virus to pick up carbon nanotubes. One part of the virus grabs a carbon nanotube, the other part of the virus has a sequence that can grow an electrode material for a battery, and then it wires itself to the current collector. And so through a process of selection evolution, we went from being able to have a virus that made a crummy battery
Video examples
Edith Widder: Glowing...
And I know this footage isn't going to look like anything to you -- we had a crummy camera at the time -- but I was ecstatic. We're at the edge of the Brine Pool, there's a fish that's swimming towards the camera. It's clearly undisturbed by us. And I had my window into the deep sea.
Video examples
Why does the universe...
and the fullest possible reality, various special realities. Nothingness is special. It's the simplest. Then there's the most elegant possible reality. That's special. The fullest possible reality, that's special. But what are we leaving out here? There's also just the crummy,
Video examples
How to make your writing...
So if you're having a crummy morning, imagine it happening to a character you're writing about, and by afternoon, you may at least get a funny story out of it. Once you've got your characters and story, here are a few quick and easy comedy writing tricks to make them zing.
Video examples
Carne Ross: An...
So we looked at that observation of basically failure and thought, what can we do about it. And I thought, I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the rest of my life lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done. So what we're going to do
Video examples
The three ways that good...
we like symmetrical faces, etc., etc. So that's the visceral level. In design, you can express visceral in lots of ways, like the choice of type fonts and the red for hot, exciting. Or the 1963 It's actually a crummy car, falls apart all the time,
Video examples
Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
just flabbergasted she said I usually see all the pretty stuff I don't get the seed that the kind of crummy stuff so she was thrilled to see something that was more quotidian but again look at the connection masks beads silks that
Video examples
Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
I actually drew that up on a little crummy Mac computer in my attic at my house, and one of the many designs which they have now is still the same design I drew way back when. So, I've been really lucky as an inventor.
Video examples
Timothy Prestero: Design...
than something that looks cheap and crummy. So again, if we want people to trust a device, it has to look trustworthy. So thinking about outcomes, it turns out appearances matter. We took all that information together.
Video examples
Spooked in the Woods PIPE...
the woods in the middle of nowhere you would think would be a quiet peaceful little place however when the weather's crummy it can be a very loud mysterious nerve-wracking area not only mysterious
Video examples
Angela Belcher: Using...
We engineered a virus to pick up carbon nanotubes. One part of the virus grabs a carbon nanotube, the other part of the virus has a sequence that can grow an electrode material for a battery, and then it wires itself to the current collector. And so through a process of selection evolution, we went from being able to have a virus that made a crummy battery
Video examples
Edith Widder: Glowing...
And I know this footage isn't going to look like anything to you -- we had a crummy camera at the time -- but I was ecstatic. We're at the edge of the Brine Pool, there's a fish that's swimming towards the camera. It's clearly undisturbed by us. And I had my window into the deep sea.
Video examples
Why does the universe...
and the fullest possible reality, various special realities. Nothingness is special. It's the simplest. Then there's the most elegant possible reality. That's special. The fullest possible reality, that's special. But what are we leaving out here? There's also just the crummy,
Video examples
How to make your writing...
So if you're having a crummy morning, imagine it happening to a character you're writing about, and by afternoon, you may at least get a funny story out of it. Once you've got your characters and story, here are a few quick and easy comedy writing tricks to make them zing.
Video examples
Carne Ross: An...
So we looked at that observation of basically failure and thought, what can we do about it. And I thought, I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the rest of my life lobbying for these crummy governments to do what needs to be done. So what we're going to do
Video examples
The three ways that good...
we like symmetrical faces, etc., etc. So that's the visceral level. In design, you can express visceral in lots of ways, like the choice of type fonts and the red for hot, exciting. Or the 1963 It's actually a crummy car, falls apart all the time,
Video examples
Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
just flabbergasted she said I usually see all the pretty stuff I don't get the seed that the kind of crummy stuff so she was thrilled to see something that was more quotidian but again look at the connection masks beads silks that
Video examples
Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
I actually drew that up on a little crummy Mac computer in my attic at my house, and one of the many designs which they have now is still the same design I drew way back when. So, I've been really lucky as an inventor.
Video examples
Timothy Prestero: Design...
than something that looks cheap and crummy. So again, if we want people to trust a device, it has to look trustworthy. So thinking about outcomes, it turns out appearances matter. We took all that information together.
Video examples
Spooked in the Woods PIPE...
the woods in the middle of nowhere you would think would be a quiet peaceful little place however when the weather's crummy it can be a very loud mysterious nerve-wracking area not only mysterious
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Mel Gibson
Actor
I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.
Quote examples
Rex Tillerson
American Businessman
In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it.
Quote examples
Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.
Quote examples
Moby
American Musician
If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.
Quote examples
Jennifer Egan
American Novelist
I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.
Quote examples
Jaron Lanier
American Artist
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Quote examples
Tom Scholz
American Musician
I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
Quote examples
Abby Johnson
American Activist
I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.
Quote examples
Peter Steele
American Musician
Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.
Quote examples
Paul Theroux
American Novelist
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
Quote examples
Mel Gibson
Actor
I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.
Quote examples
Rex Tillerson
American Businessman
In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it.
Quote examples
Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.
Quote examples
Moby
American Musician
If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.
Quote examples
Jennifer Egan
American Novelist
I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.
Quote examples
Jaron Lanier
American Artist
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Quote examples
Tom Scholz
American Musician
I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.
Quote examples
Abby Johnson
American Activist
I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.
Quote examples
Peter Steele
American Musician
Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.
Quote examples
Paul Theroux
American Novelist
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
Example 1 of 10
WordUp Chrome Extension
As you browse the web instantly look up words you don’t know.
Get Chrome Extension