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stale

adjective verb

lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

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Word Facts

Word length
5
Starts with
S
Ends with
E
Contains
TA
Scrabble score
5
CEFR level
C1

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adjective

  1. lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

    “stale bread”

adjective

  1. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

    “moth-eaten theories about race”

verb

  1. urinate, of cattle and horses

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Example Sentences

stale bread
the beer was stale
moth-eaten theories about race
stale news

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, licensed under CC BY 4.0, derived from Princeton WordNet.
CEFR levels derived from the CEFR-J wordlist.

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