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stale

verb

1 stale

Urinate, of cattle and horses.

adjective

1 stale

Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.

Roget 124: old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn.    prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleolontological, ... show more

Roget 391: bland, void of taste etc. 390; insipid; tasteless, gustless, savorless; ingustible, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, ... show more

Polish: stary

2 stale

Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new:
— Stale news.

synonyms: cold, dusty, moth-eaten.

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: allurement, antiquated, back-number, bait, banal, bewhiskered, blown, boring, bromidic, cliche, cliched, come-on, common, commonplace, corny, crumbling, cut-and-dried, dead, decoy, dilapidated ... show more.

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