schal

Meaning

  1. stale (of food and drink: having lost its taste through age, oxidation, etc.)
  2. (figuratively) dull, flat, insipid

Synonyms

gehaltlos

geisttötend

inhaltsleer

kahmig

moderig

stupid

stupide

substanzlos

ohne Substanz

stockig

grau in grau

substanzarm

ohne Ausdruckskraft

ohne Überraschungen

nicht weiter der Rede wert

unspektakulär

nach nichts aussehen

unlebendig

bedeutungsleer

ohne Pointe

vermufft

wie Laternenpfahl ganz unten

das Gegenteil von …

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃaːl/
Etymology

From (late and northern) Middle High German schal (“tasteless, turbid”), borrowed from Middle Low German schal, from Proto-Germanic *skal-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Compare Swedish skäll (“thin, weak, bleak”), Old English sċeald (“shallow, flat”), whence modern English shallow and shoal.

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