stale

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.

Adj

1. (obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.
2. No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
3. No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
4. (obsolete) No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.
5. Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
6. (obsolete) Fallow, in reference to land.
7. Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
8. Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
9. Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
10. Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).
2. To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
3. To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
4. To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.

Verb

To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.

Adj

At a standstill; stalemated.

Verb

1. To stalemate.
2. (obsolete) To be stalemated.

Verb

To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.

Verb

To serve as a decoy, to lure.

Conceptos

pasado

rancio

manido

viciado

viejo

🧓

anquilosado

revenido

duro

gastado

tieso

redicho

trasnochado

picado

Sinónimos

musty

trite

not fresh

stuffy

old

🧓

cold

🥶

rancid

spoiled

hackneyed

dry

stagnant

moldy

tasteless

flat

hard

rotten

insipid

threadbare

bad

👎

obsolete

foul

urinate

urine

weary

😩

moth-eaten

frowzy

fusty

close

sour

putrid

old-hat

dusty

rank

strong-smelling

tired

😫

muck-water

mouldy

trivial

tainted

tame

timeworn

torn

uninteresting

unpractised

unskillful

unventilated

well-worn

worn

worn-out

cliched

go sour

hard-worked

turn sour

obsolete article

be unpalatable

lose its taste

age

overaged

aged

airless

ancient

antiquated

attrited

banal

battered

boring

bromidic

careworn

commonplace

dated

deadlocked

dull

elapsed

eroded

expire

expired

fermented

fetid

liquid manure

loud

mangled

manure

marred

nauseating

off

old fashioned

outdated

outmoded

played out

run-down

rusty

shopworn

spoil

standing

stodgy

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/steɪl/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English stale, from Old French estale (“settled, clear”), but probably originally from Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): compare West Flemish stel in the same sense for ‘beer’ and ‘urine’.