Stale

Adjective

 * 1) Having lost its freshness from age. Stale food, for instance, is food which is still edible but has lost its deliciousness.
 * The steak is as stale as the beer.
 * If you don't enter a room for some days, the air will become stale.
 * 1) No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old; as, stale news, a stale joke, etc.

Antonyms

 * fresh

Noun

 * 1)  A bird used as a decoy to trap other birds.
 * 2)  Any trap or lure.
 * 3) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
 * Still as he went, he craftie stales did lay / With cunning traines him to entrap vnwares.
 * 1)  A low class of prostitute (originally used as a decoy by other criminals).
 * 2) * William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene i, lines 59-60:
 * I stand dishonor'd, that have gone about / To link my dear friend to a common stale [...].

Noun

 * 1)  A person's position, especially in a battle-line.
 * 2) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
 * for ony stowre that ever ye see us bestadde, stondys in your stale and sterte ye no ferther.
 * 1)  An ambush.
 * 2)  A division of armed men posted in a specific place, either for an ambush or for other reasons.

Noun

 * 1) Urine, especially of horses or cattle.
 * 2) *1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.48:
 * Those of Crotta being hardly besieged by Metellus, were reduced to so hard a pinch, and strait necessitie of all manner of other beverage, that they were forced to drinke the stale or urine of their horses.

Adverbs for Stale
uselessly; terribly; obviously; unluckily; alarmingly; indubitably; mustily; unprofitably; tastelessly; inexcusably; unacceptably; disgustingly; wearily; injuriously; unhealthfully; unwholesomely; unwarrantably; objectionably; disagreeably; unpleasantly.

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, dilute, diluted, dry, dusty, enticement, fade, familiar, fetid, flat, flavorless, frowy, fusty, gamy, gone off, gone to seed, gruelly, hackney, hackneyed, hand-me-down, hardened, high, inane, indifferent, insipid, jejune, limp, mild, mildewed, milk-and-water, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mouldy, musty, noisome, off, old, old hat, old-fashioned, overused, pappy, platitudinous, pulpy, rancid, rank, reechy, reeking, rotten, ruined, ruinous, rusty, sapless, savorless, seducement, set, shopworn, smelly, snare, sour, soured, spiceless, spoiled, square, stenchy, stereotyped, stinking, stock, strong, tainted, tasteless, temptation, thin, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tired, tiresome, trap, trite, truistic, turned, unflavored, unoriginal, unsavory, vapid, warmed-over, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weary, well-known, well-worn, wilted, wishy-washy, withered, worn, worn thin

Etymology 1
Origin uncertain.

Etymology 2
Apparently from estale:, ultimately from.

Etymology 3
From estal: ( > French étal:), from  *undefined:, from, earlier. Ultimately related to stand:.

Etymology 4
Origin uncertain.

Adjective

 * Albanian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 陳腐, 陈腐
 * Dutch: taai (bread), (butter, fat),  (water),  (air), onfris (especially clothes)...
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: väljähtänyt,
 * French: (bread),  (butter, oil, fat),  (water),  (air),  (especially clothes)...


 * German: abgestanden, schal
 * Greek:, στάσιμος
 * Japanese: 陳腐
 * Russian: несвежий, (bread), затхлый
 * Spanish: (bread), revenido,  (food),  (air)
 * Telugu: పాచిన, వాడిన, వడలిన
 * Turkish:


 * Albanian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: väljähtänyt, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, abgedroschen (joke)


 * Russian: избитый, банальный,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Antonyms

 * fresh (1)

Related terms

 * stalemate

Anagrams

 * lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla

Adverb

 * 1) constantly, continually