stale
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3.1
- adjective
- /steɪl/
:
trillado
- Honey, she told me our relationship had gotten stale.
- feel stale
- become stale
- get stale
Like would you go stale and rigid and like so?
- Like would you go stale and rigid and like so?
- You can't just have a damn stale yard and there's nothing out there.
- They're not being stale and to the degree they're being stale, they're losing.
- They become something much more, you know, like corporate and stale.
- OK, he's he's yeah, he just looks stale.
- But, and that might be true, but it would become stale for me and then I would become stale for my audience.
- And So what happens is my Facebook and my podcast is, is to me stale versus all the freshness that comes out daily.
- If the old doesn't die, then you're not you're going to get stale and not be adaptable to the changing environment.
- Do we tend to always repeat the same stale strategies from the past, or are we open to new ideas?
- You know, the prices are so stale in, you know, in, in venture capital that that kind of stuff happens all the time.
Examples
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Do we tend to always repeat the same stale strategies from the past, or are we open to new ideas?
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The story felt stale after hearing the same plot twist too many times.
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The industry was getting pretty stale, you know.
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I guess that things have become a little stale for me.
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Maybe things are just getting stale.
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The room had a stale feeling about it, as if in some way it had been abandoned.
Fiction book (1993) -
The debate over whether or not to meet Baker became somewhat stale in and of itself.
Academic text (1991) -
And city after city, the routine grew stale, and at times, torturous.
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His choreography had become stale; his movements were less convincing.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her messages come in soundbites and often have the taste of stale political sloganeering.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
721
1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
643
4.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it feels boring
81
5.8
Not original and trying to be touching but it feels silly
78
5.0
No longer useful or fashionable because it is old
37
4.1
Making you bored, annoyed, or mentally tired
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6.6
Not new or interesting because it is used too often
23
6.2
Not showing new ideas or creative thinking
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7.2
Used so often that it feels boring
14
4.0
Not having new or interesting ideas
11
6.5
Old and not interesting because it has no new ideas
8
3.4
Not new or creative like ideas you have heard before
8
7.8
Dull and old-fashioned, not interesting or new
1
6.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it is no longer interesting
1
5.4
Not new because people use it too often and it is easy to guess
1
7.4
Used so often it feels like a boring idea
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6.8
No longer new or fashionable
Used so much that it looks old or no longer works well
Old, tired ideas that are no longer interesting
Old-fashioned and stale in style or ideas
Boring because it uses words or ideas people hear many times
Antonyms
Idioms
- Slur
A group that mostly has older white men and lacks diversity and new ideas
Compounds
How Original
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stale for ideas uses the same picture: a joke or story that has stayed around so long it loses its surprise and becomes dull. That's why stale means 'no longer new, interesting, or original'.