stale English

Meaning stale meaning

What does stale mean?

stale

— adjective lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age stale bread the beer was stale

— verb urinate, of cattle and horses

— adjective (= moth-eaten) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new moth-eaten theories about race stale news

Synonyms stale synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as stale?

stale English » English

musty

trite

stuffy

rancid

old

not fresh

cold

spoiled

hackneyed

tasteless

stagnant

rotten

moldy

insipid

hard

flat

dry

weary

urine

urinate

trivial

tired

threadbare

strong-smelling

sour

rank

putrid

old-hat

obsolete

muck-water

mouldy

moth-eaten

fusty

frowzy

foul

dusty

close

bad

worn-out

worn

well-worn

unventilated

unskillful

unpractised

uninteresting

turn sour

torn

timeworn

tame

tainted

Topics stale topics

What do people use stale to talk about?

States Quality Good

Decay

• What words refer to food decaying?
  go bad go off go stale go sour spoil taint
• What words describe food that is decaying?
  rotten bad stale moldy sour rancid off tainted

Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Speak poorly

• What words describe something that has been said so often that people think it is stupid?
  trite over-used stale banal be wearing thin threadbare clichéd corny hackneyed shopworn stereotyped commonplace

Daily life Food

Types of food

• What words describe food?
  tender tough crisp crispy raw stale fresh

States Time Aspectual time Age

Old, not new

• What words describe food that is old?
  stale decayed

Examples stale examples

How do I use stale in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The bread is stale.

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

That bread has started to go stale.

What do you prefer: cold coffee or stale beer?

These pretzels are stale.

A nurse brought me some bread and coffee, but the bread was stale and the coffee tasted of soap.

This popcorn tastes stale. I wonder when it was popped.

The dog ate the stale bread and didn't die.

Movie subtitles

And it never faded, never got stale.

It will be pretty stale by that time.

I guess he thought he was going to stale here.

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

Smells like marigolds, stale ones.

You've gone stale.

Probably maraschino cherries and stale crackers.

Two months without an operation - it's getting a stale joke now.

Two loaves of stale bread and butter.

Yes, but the whole thing is stale now. it's stale. has lost its appeal, the editor won't print it.

Maybe after sixteen years. every marriage gets a little stale. like a leftover glass of beer.

It's just stale air, Eleanor.

The air in here is stale.

Offer me a stale sandwich or some flat champagne? You're funny.

If only we could put away this stale old quarrel.

Oh, he did, did he? Seems to be afraid I'm going to go stale while he's gone.

He is just a little bit stale.

No, he more than stale.

They get stale so fast I never have time to do anything else.

It smells like marigolds. Stale ones.

Time cannot wither nor custom stale your infinite charm, Gertrude.

Age cannot wither us, nor custom stale our infinite variety.

They shall peg out and stale behind walls and it's going to be long until their last breath.

Why don't you ask him why he didn't warn us that the whole-wheat bread is stale?

STALE, COMMON, HEAVY BEER.

But it's stale bread.

My life is nothing but a flat, stale vacuum.

Primigenous, stale, a hash-up of last week's news.

Well, Ethel's not going to any stale fights.

Living in some stale little hotel or some grubby furnished room.

Stale bread.

The food of the house has become stale.

Who needs stale bread?

News and current affairs

The air was stale but heavy with the stench of death in interrogation chambers, barren save for a single bed frame, shackles, and a chair.

The younger generation feels stifled by their elders' stale, protectionist policies.