English > stale: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age. |
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| Examples | - "stale bread"
- "the beer was stale"
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| Attribute of | staleness | Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging |
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| Narrower | addled | (of eggs) no longer edible |
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| bad, spoiled, spoilt | (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition |
| cold | Having lost freshness through passage of time |
| corrupt, tainted | Touched by rot or decay |
| day-old | not fresh today |
| flyblown, maggoty | spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies |
| hard | dried out |
| moldy, mouldy, musty | Covered with or smelling of mold |
| putrescent | Becoming putrid |
| putrid | In an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor |
| rancid | (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition |
| rotten | Having decayed or disintegrated |
| See also | old | Of long duration |
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| unoriginal | not original |
| Opposite | fresh | recently made, produced, or harvested |
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| Spanish | pasado, rancio, revenido, viciado |
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| Nouns | staleness | having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging |
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