Friable

What do we mean by friable?

Readily crumbled; brittle. adjective

Easily crumbled or pulverized; easily reduced to powder, as pumice.

Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. adjective

Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder. adjective

Loose and large-grained in consistency. adjective

Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk adjective

Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder adjective

Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.

(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.

(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk

(of a number) Smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.

Words that are spelled similarly to friable:
friable, fribble, triable, frible, fiable.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word friable:
loam, asbestos, calcareous, alkaline, sandstone, conglomerate, sediment, moderately, soil, clay, volcanic, flexible, olive, layers, loose, ash, sand, easily, particles, rocks, soft, suitable, coal, slightly, materials, yellow, material, surface, wind, brown, deep, nature, becomes, content, break, hard, damage, fine, rock, dark, sometimes, conditions, usually, structure.

Words that rhyme with friable:
viable, reliable, liable, pliable, unreliable, undeniable, justifiable, verifiable, identifiable, triable, diable, unjustifiable, flyable, classifiable, dyeable, unverifiable, buyable.

Adjectives that are often used to describe friable:
moist, non, least.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective friable:
soil, sandstone, loam, mass, material, tissue, nature, soils, rock, mucosa, condition, materials, clay, masses, substance, sandstones, earth, stone, surface, rocks, limestone, sand, texture, callus, vegetations, asbestos, structure, tissues, state, consistency, powder, tumor, particles, coal, loams, character, shale, layer, matter, consistence, skin, growth, acm, clays, lesion, vessels, lesions, cervix, clot, fabric, wall, lumps, appearance, hair, deposits, products, ware, crust, marl, sands, crusts, surfaces, membrane, mixture, deposit, plastic, mould, ore, mortar, tumors, shales, layers, pieces, ores, walls, wet, subsoils, slate, chalk, base, subsoil, nodules, solids, paste, coals, fragments, edges, bodies, solid, variety, conglomerate, beds, liver, peat, shore, mineral, ground.

Consonant match to friable:
froebel.

Words that sound like friable:
friable, fiable, fribble, flyable, freezable, froebel, framable, frameable, frobel, triable, throwable, finable, fineable, fishable, feasible, fallible, forcible, fillable, fordable, formable, fittable, fightable, affirmable, forgeable, farmable, fireable, freeball, forceable, fibel, dryable, fellable, viable, thurible, versable, growable, fire bell, fragile, fable, feeble, fumble, frugal, freckle, forgettable, fireball, forgivable, frazzle, foible, frizzle, futbol, fragil, fabel, furball, foreseeable, fusible, frangible, fire ball, froogle, fur ball, frizzell, frivol, frickle, fimble, friddle, fry up, phrasal, friedel, fravel, frijol, faible, faceable, fadable, frizell, famble, fry-up, free people, drawable, frazil, friedl, frizel, flabile, learnable, turnable, trouble, variable, liable, tribal, irritable, arable, workable, erasable, viewable, grubble, priceable, servable, erodible, irrisible, creable, issuable, earable, fairy bell.