Stale

Definition: Stale

Stale

Adjective

1. Showing deterioration from age; "stale bread".

2. Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race".

3. No longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news".

Verb

1. Urinate, of cattle and horses.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Stale

Deterioration

Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky.

Dullness

Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable".

Insipidity

Adjective: bland, void of taste; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted.

Inutility

Adjective: useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative; inadequate; (insufficient); inservient, unsubservient; inept, inefficient; (impotent); of no avail; (use); ineffectual; (failure); incompetent; (unskillful); " stale, flat and unprofitable"; superfluous; (redundant); dispensable; thrown away; (wasted); abortive; (immature).

News

Old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut.

Oldness

Antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; (deteriorated); secondhand.

Crosswords: Stale

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety (Antony and Cleopatra; writing credit: William Shakespeare)

Eating stale m and m's (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

I see our time had gotten stale (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6)

A man who cried for a love gone stale (The Prophet's Song; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May)

I think I'm almost chokin' from the smell of stale perfume (Mama Told Me (Not to Come); performing artist: Three Dog Night)

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale bread to begin with? (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Baseball in the Bad Lands: Stale Beers and Stale Careers (reference)

• European Arms Control: Problems and Prospects: The Proceedings of an International Symposium ' Towards a More Stale Military Balance in Europe') (reference)

• Ma±e miasta : problemy urbanistyczne stale aktualne (reference)

• Stale narzñedziowe, gatunki, obrâobka cieplna, zastosowania (reference)

• The New HP Services: A Fresh Approach for Stale Times [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung

It had a cock near the bottom to let out the water when it began to grow stale, and two servants could easily fill it in half an hour

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You Notice an Odd, Stale Smell. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stale": become stale ♦ go stale ♦ grow stale ♦ stale affidavit ♦ stale air ♦ stale bread ♦ stale cheque ♦ stale dated check ♦ stale demand ♦ stale joke ♦ stale market ♦ stale pointer bug ♦ stale story. Additional references.

Beginning with "stale": stale-breathed, stale-mate, stale-tobacco.

Afrikaans

benoud (agitated, airless, anxious, close, cramped, oppressive, stiffling, sultry, troubled). (various references)

Albanian

i rraskapitur (dead beat, done, exhausted, frazzle, prostrate, washed out, washout, whacked, worn out), i ndenjur (sedentary, stagnant, superincumbent), i mpirë (asleep, benumbed, dead, inert, lame, muscle bound, numb, obtuse, torpid), i grirë (beaten, cankered, hackneyed, minced, obsolete, outworn, threadbare, trite), bajat (moldy, mouldy, stuffy, threadbare, warmed-over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, frowsty, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, taint), ‏بول البعير, ‏بول البهيمة, ‏أخبار قديمة, ‏أصبح تافها (pall), ‏جعله مبتذلا, ‏بال (decomposed, decrepit, fossil, mangy, musty, old fashioned, outmoded, outworn, rotten, shabby, threadbare, tired, trite, well worn, worn, worn out), ‏عفونة (moldiness, mouldiness, mustiness, putrescence, reek, rottenness), ‏فاقد النضارة, ‏قديم (ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, back, classic, classical, hoary, immemorial, obsolete, of long standing, old, old fashioned, old hand, old time, old timer, old-established, oldster, once, out of date, outdated, outmoded, primitive, quondam, sometime, staleness, stock, superannuate, time honored, time worn, very old), ‏قديمة, ‏ناشف, ‏هالك (gone, perishable), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏موهن (broken), ‏خمرة قوية (tonic wine). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стар (aged, back, grey headed, moth-eaten, old, old age, used, veteran), спарен (frowsty, fusty, pockety), загубил давност, преуморен, пикоч (pee, piss, urine, water), пикая (pee, piss, urinate, wee, wee-wee), изхабен (worn out), изтъркан (bare, hack, hackneyed, napless, old hat, outworn, platitudinous, played out, raunchy, shabby, stereotypical, threadbare, time worn, trite, twice-told, warmed-over, well worn, worn out). (various references)

Chinese 

陳 (a surname, arrange, exhibit, narrate, old, tell, to display, to explain, to state), 陈旧 (hackneyed), 不新鮮 . (various references)

Czech

starý (aged, ancient, guv, old, old man), zvìtralý (weatherworn), zkažený (bad, corrupt, debauched, decayed, high, perverted, putrid, rotten, ruined, spoilt, wicked), zatuchlý (dank, foul, rancid, stagnant, stuffy), vysušený, vydýchaný (stuffy), vyèerpaný (bushed, effete, exhausted, fatigued, finished, gone, impoverished, spent, washed out, worn out), uvadlý (dead, faded), unavený (jaded, tired, weary), otřepaný (corny, hackneyed, jaded, outworn, overworked, platitudinous, threadbare, trite, well worn), okoralý (crusty, parched). (various references)

Danish

gammelt brød (stale bread), gammelsmag og-lugt (stale flavour). (various references)

Dutch

muf (moldy, mouldy, musty), gortig, goor, benauwd (airless, close, cramped, oppressive, stiffling, sultry). (various references)

Esperanto

sterkakvo (liquid manure, muck-water), tede banala (hackneyed, hard-worked, trite, worn-out), malfreŝa. (various references)

Farsi 

پرزوروکهنه(مثل ابجو), مانده (Remain, Remainder, Remanence, Weary), مبتذل کردن , مبتذل (Banal, Commonplace, Humdrum, Pedestrian, Trivial, Vulgar), تازگی وطراوت چیزی راازبین بردن , بیات کردن , بیات , بوی ناگرفته (Musty). (various references)

Finnish

ytimetön (flat, insipid), väljähtynyt (flat, insipid), ummehtunut (close, musty, stuffy), tympeä (flat, insipid), kulunut (hackneyed, shabby, threadbare, well-worn, worn-out). (various references)

French

rassis (staid). (various references)

Frisian

ôfseage (hackneyed, hard-worked, trite, worn-out). (various references)

German

schal (empty, flat, muffler, scarf, shawl, vapid, weak), abgestanden (flat). (various references)

Greek 

έωλοσ, μπαγιάτικοσ (fusty, musty), μπαγιάτικος, παλαιώνω (age). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסריח (fetid, malodorous, putrid, rank, smelly, stinker, stinking), ישן � ושן (obsolete, old fashioned, very old), ל�"מאס (be abhorred, be detested, be sick and tired, be sick of), ל�"תישן (become obsolete), ל�"פוך ל� �"וש, ל�"באיש (stink), לא טרי, באוש (frowsty, malodorous, spoilt, stinking), � �"וש (banal, hackneyed, platitudinous, threshed, trite, well worn). (various references)

Hungarian

húgy (piss, urine), állott (flat), száraz (anhydrous, arid, bald, bare, cut and dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, dryish, fine, husky, lean, prosaic, prosy, sear, sec, sere, undamped), régi (ancient, antique, bygone, centner, hand-me-down, hoar, hoary, of old, old, old time, old-world, past, pristine, time honored, time-honoured, time-worn), poshadt (vapid), nem friss (not fresh), lejárt (mature, no longer available, overdue), lapos (depressed, earthbound, earth-bound, even, featureless, flat, lasagne, plain, prolate, tabulate, trite, vapid), lanyha (depressed, dull, languid, slack, sluggish, tepid), elévült, banális (banal, commonplace, corny, dismal, quotidian, trite), áporodott (airless, frouzy, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stuffy, vapid). (various references)

Indonesian

kebayuan (fermented), buluk-bulukan (moldy), bayu, basi (bowl, fusty, reduction, spoiled, trivial). (various references)

Italian

trito e ritrito (hackneyed, hard-worked, trite, worn-out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陳腐 , 古い (aged, ancient, antiquated, obsolete article, old, outmoded, threadbare). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふるくさい (hackneyed, old fashioned, trite), ふるい (aged, ague, ancient, antiquated, obsolete article, old, outmoded, shaking, shivering, sieve, threadbare, trembling), ち�"ぷ. (various references)

Korean 

부패하�" (Decayed). (various references)

Manx

shenn (aged, ancient, antiquarian, archaic, auld, consecrated, elderly, ex, former, inveterate, long-standing, old, olden, old-established, senile, time-fusty, veteran, vintage, worn), roit ass, loau (bad, bad as meat, carious, corrupt, decayed, foul, gangrenous, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid, rotted, rotten, stagnate), gort (bitter, brackish, high, high as game, hurt, rank, sour, sour of land, vinegarish, vinegary), goll eig (die out, go off, vegetate), gear (sharp, sour, spicy), gart (bitter, high as game; cornland, high; cornland, sour, sour of land), eig (decease, prosaic, unexciting, vapid, wishy-washy). (various references)

Pig Latin

alestay.(various references)

Portuguese

velho (aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, elderly, graybeard, hunker, old, old man, olden, shabby, superannuated, threadbare, trite, worm-eaten), seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, dry, hacking, jerky, parched, rainless, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, sere, thirsty, undamped). (various references)

Romanian

se învechi (age, pass), surmenat, stãtut (aged, close, dead, flat, frowzy, musty, sour, stuffy), se trezi (awake, awaken, flatten, rattle up, stir, wake, wake up, waken), se banaliza (season), a-şi pierde actualitate, demodat (antiquated, dated, disused, frumpish, obsolete, old fashioned, out, out of date, out of fashion, outmoded, passe, quaint, rusty, unfashionable), ieşit din modã, perimat (antiquated, superannuated), prãfuit (dusty, musty, old fashioned), rânced (rancid, rank), învechit (antediluvian, antiquated, back, crusted, dated, disused, grey headed, inveterate, lapsed, musty, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old fashioned, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, rusty, superannuated, threadbare), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), vechi (ancient, antique, back, decrepit, grey headed, Hoar, inveterate, old, quondam, superannuated, time worn, used), trezit (flat), urina (make water, piddle, piss, urinate), uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), rãsuflat (flat, mawkish, threadbare). (various references)

Russian 

черствый;затхлый, черствый (cold-hearted, hard, obdurate), несвежий (not fresh, staled), засохший, потерявший свежесть. (various references)

Scottish

gairgein (stale wine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustajao (logged, musty, stagnant), pretreniran, otrcan (commonplace, corny, hackneyed, outworn, shabby, tame, threadbare, trite, well worn), mokriti (make water, pass water, pee, tinkle, urinate), mokraća (pee, piss, urea, urine), bljutav (insipid, vapid), bajat (musty). (various references)

Spanish

oprimido (airless, downtrodden, oppressive, stiffling, sultry), trillado (hackneyed, hard-worked, played out, threadbare, threshed, trite, worn out, worn-out), redicho (hackneyed, hard-worked, refined, trite, worn-out), manido (gamy, high). (various references)

Swedish

unken (frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, musty, whiffy), inte färsk (not fresh). (various references)

Turkish

bayat (corny, cut and dried, dated, detrited, not fresh, old, threadbare, trite, twice-told, worn, worn out). (various references)

Turkmen 

gaty (hard). (various references)

Ukrainian

стебло (footstalk, haulm, stalk, stem), рукоятка (brake, grasp, grip, gripe, hilt, lever, shaft), чубук, черствий (callous, cold-hearted, Hoar, obdurate, ossified), зношуватися (fray, wear), застаріти, заяложений (commonplace, ordinary, outworn, platitudinous, ready made, shiny, stock, threadbare), затхлий (frowsty, frowzy, fusty, spent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chớm thối, cũ (back, former, old-established, old-fashioned, second-hand, seconds-hand), để đã lâu; ôi. (various references)

Welsh

mws (rank, stinking). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stale": staled, stalely, stalemate, stalemated, stalemates, stalemating, staleness, stalenesses, staler, stales, stalest. (additional references)

Words containing "stale": pedestaled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ataleh, Esdale, estal, estale, Estalia, etale, Itale, salle, satal, Satelo, schale, schalle, Siale, Sittelle, skale, snale, staae, staal, stabe, stace, Stadlen, stae, stael, stafe, stahl, stakla, stalg, stalic, stalke, stalla, stalle, stallen, stame, stape, stase, staxe, staze, steale, stelen, stelle, stello, stelze, stiel, stille, stlaw, stule, svale, tsal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: least, setal, slate, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla.

-1 letter: ales, alts, ates, east, eats, etas, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, seta, slat, tael, tale, teal, teas, tela, tels.

-2 letters: ale, als, alt, ate, eat, els, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ae, al, as, at.

+1 letter: ablest, aglets, alates, alerts, alters, artels, bleats, castle, cleats, deltas, desalt, eclats, elates, estral, exalts, festal, halest, haslet, lamest, lasted, laster, latens, latest, lathes, latkes, lattes, laxest, leasts, lysate, metals, osteal, palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, ratels, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, septal, shelta, slated, slater, slates, slatey, solate, stable, staled, staler, stales, staple, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, tables, talers, tassel, teasel, tepals, teslas, valets, vestal.