Meaning of uncrisp | Babel Free
Definitions
- Not crisp.
- Not possessing firmness and freshness or brittleness (especially of foods).
- Not quick, precise, accurate or well-defined.
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Not curling in stiff curls or ringlets (of hair). dated
Examples
“[…] if a second crop was taken from the same ground without fertilizing it, the melons would be small and what we called soapy; that is, soft and smooth, utterly uncrisp, and without a trace of the lively freshness and sweetness of those raised on virgin soil.”
“[…] from time to time a sort of unhealthy almost-light leaked from the large uncrisp corpse of the sky, returning for a moment to our view the ruined landscape.”
“His light brown hair fell, in thin, uncrisp locks, about his white, prominent temples,”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.