What is another word for stale?

Common synonyms for stale include addled, bad, spoiled, spoilt, cold, day-old, hard, flyblown.

What is the past tense of stale?

The past tense of stale is staled.

stale

Q: What rhymes with stale?

Words that rhyme with stale include sale, male, scale, mail, email, jail.

/steɪl/verb, adjective1 syllable

Stale means: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.

Synonyms for stale37

adjective, as in lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

addled, bad, spoiled, spoilt, cold, day-old, hard, flyblown, maggoty, moldy, mouldy, musty, rancid, rotten

and 6 more

, corrupt, tainted, putrid, putrescent, old, unoriginal

adjective, as in lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

cold, dusty, moth-eaten, unoriginal

also used for stale

fusty, gone bad, gone off, maggoted, banal, played out, trite, bathetic, bromidic, cheesy, stock, clichéd, commonplace, antediluvian, eldern

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Opposites of stale

fresh

What does stale mean?3

adjective

lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age“stale bread”

lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new“moth-eaten theories about race”

verb

urinate, of cattle and horses

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with stale?42

one syllable

sale male scale mail jail fail trail rail tail tale nail pale bail sail dale whale hail yale shale ale snail veil

two syllables

email detail

Show 40 near rhymes

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All 42 rhymes for stale, grouped by syllable

Stale in a sentence

He's your typical stale, cringey know-it-all.deniko
In politics, the new almost always looks like stale bread.carlosalberto
The dog ate the stale bread and didn't die.mervert1
You can use stale bread to make croutons.Nuel
What do you prefer: cold coffee or stale beer?carlosalberto
I don't want to eat this stale bread.AlanF_US
Ziri discovered that the birdseed had gone stale.always
The cereal company apologized for the stale product.Amastan

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of stale

as a verb

past tense: staled
present participle: staling
third-person singular: stales
past participle: staled

as a adjective

comparative: staler
superlative: stalest