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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, delicate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, lacerable, pulverizable, pulverulent, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, triturable, vulnerable
Dictionary Results for friable:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
friable
    adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder;
           "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
           "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies"
           [syn: crumbly, friable]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Friable \Fri"a*ble\, a. [L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break,
   or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray:
   cf. F. friable.]
   Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable
   ground." --Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." --Paley. --
   Fri'a*ble*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]
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