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1. Oxford Dictionary

   stale

   • IPA[steɪl]

   英式

   • adj.
     (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry；no longer new and interesting or exciting
   • v.
     make or become stale

   • verb: stale, 3rd person present: stales, gerund or present participle: staling, past tense: staled, past participle: staled

2. • 釋義

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry stale bread 同義詞 dry, dried out, hard, hardened, old, ... 更多past its best, past its sell-by date, off, mouldy, rotten, decayed, unfresh, rancid, rank反義詞 fresh
   • ▪ no longer new and interesting or exciting their marriage had gone stale 同義詞 hackneyed, tired, worn out, overworked, threadbare, ... 更多warmed-up, banal, trite, stock, stereotyped, clichéd, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, platitudinous, unoriginal, derivative, unimaginative, uninspired, flat, out of date, outdated, outmoded, passé, archaic, obsolete, defunct, antiquated, warmed-over, informalold hat, corny, out of the ark, played out, past their sell-by date, hacky反義詞 original
   • ▪ (of a person) no longer able to perform well or creatively because of having done something for too long a top executive tends to get stale
   • ▪ (of a cheque or legal claim) invalid because out of date justifications for adverse possession go beyond stale claims

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. make or become stale she would cut up yesterday's leftover bread, staling now