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Showing words for STALE using the English dictionary

5 Letter Words for Stale

astel, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, tales, teals, tesla

4 Letter Words for Stale

ales, alts, ates, atle, east, eats, elts, etas, laet, lase, last, late, lats, leas, leat, lest, lets, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, selt, seta, slat, tael, tale, teal, teas, tela, tels

3 Letter Words for Stale

aes, ale, als, alt, ase, asl, ast, ate, eas, eat, ela, els, elt, est, eta, las, lat, lea, les, let, lst, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, sla, sle, slt, sta, tal, tas, tea, tel, tes

Definitions for Stale

[1] not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
[2] musty; stagnant: stale air.
[3] having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke.
[4] having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation.
[5] Law . having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim.
[6] to make or become stale.
[7] (of livestock, especially horses) to urinate.
[8] (esp of food) hard, musty, or dry from being kept too long
[9] (of beer, etc) flat and tasteless from being kept open too long
[10] (of air) stagnant; foul
[11] uninteresting from overuse; hackneyed stale clichés
[12] no longer new stale news
[13] lacking in energy or ideas through overwork or lack of variety
[14] banking (of a cheque) not negotiable by a bank as a result of not having been presented within six months of being written
[15] law (of a claim, etc) having lost its effectiveness or force, as by failure to act or by the lapse of time
[16] to make or become stale
[17] (intr) (of livestock) to urinate
[18] the urine of horses or cattle

Words related to Stale

watery, smelly, sour, stagnant, musty, hackneyed, tired, corny, threadbare, dull, shopworn, dry, stinking, spoiled, rank, parched, dried, faded, reeking, antiquated

Words nearby Stale

stalactites, stalag, stalagmite, stalagmites, stalagmometer, stale, stale bull, stalemate, stalin, stalin peak, stalin's purge trials

Origin of Stale

21400–50; late Middle English stalen to urinate; cognate with German stallen, Danish stalle, Norwegian, Swedish stalla

Other words from Stale

stale·ly , adverb
stale·ness , noun

Word origin for Stale

C15: perhaps from Old French estaler to stand in one position; see stall 1 ; compare Middle Low German stallen to urinate, Greek stalassein to drip

Synonyms for Stale

musty, smelly, sour, stagnant, watery, dried, dry, faded, parched, rank, reeking, spoiled, stinking, fetid, flat, fusty, hard, insipid, malodorous, noisome, stenchy, tasteless, weak, zestless