Synonyms of the word

stale

• adj. (alcohol, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.
• adj. No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
• adj. No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed,…
• adj. No longer nubile or suitable for marriage, in reference to people; past one's prime.
• adj. (agriculture, obsolete) Fallow, in reference to land.
• adj. (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
• adj. Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
• adj. (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
• n. (colloquial) Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
• v. (of alcohol, obsolete, transitive) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially…
• v. (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest…
• v. (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
• v. (alcohol, intransitive) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
• n. A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.).
• n. (dialectal) The posts and rungs composing a ladder.
• n. (botany, obsolete) The stem of a plant.
• n. The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a ladder by joining rungs ("stales") between the posts.
• n. (military, obsolete) A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
• n. (chess, uncommon) A stalemate; a stalemated game.
• n. (military, obsolete) An ambush.
• n. (obsolete) A band of armed men or hunters.
• n. (Scotland, military, obsolete) The main force of an army.
• adj. (chess, obsolete) At a standstill; stalemated.
• v. (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
• v. (chess, obsolete, intransitive) To be stalemated.
• n. (livestock, obsolete) Urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
• v. (livestock, obsolete, intransitive) To urinate, especially used of horses and cattle.
• n. (falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
• n. (obsolete) Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
• n. (crime, obsolete) An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
• n. (obsolete) a partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.
• n. (obsolete) A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. …
• n. (crime, obsolete) A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
• n. (hunting, obsolete) Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.
• v. (rare, obsolete, transitive) To serve as a decoy, to lure.

addled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of addle.
• adj. (of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
• adj. Confused; mixed up.
• adj. (obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

bad

• adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
• adj. Not suitable or fitting.
• adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
• adj. Unhealthy.
• adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• adj. Evil; wicked.
• adj. Faulty; not functional.
• adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
• adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
• adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
• adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
• n. (slang) Error, mistake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
• adj. (slang) Fantastic.
• v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
• v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

cold

• adj. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
• adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
• adj. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
• adj. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
• adj. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
• adj. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
• adj. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
• adj. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
• adj. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
• adj. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
• adj. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
• adj. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
• adj. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare…
• adj. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
• n. A condition of low temperature.
• n. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and…
• adv. While at low temperature.
• adv. Without preparation.
• adv. With finality.
• adv. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

day-old

• n. Any animal that is one day old.
• n. A perishable product that is a day old, and may be sold more cheaply as a result.

dusty

• adj. Covered with dust.
• adj. Powdery and resembling dust.
• adj. Grey in parts.

flyblown

• adj. contaminated with flyblows.
• adj. tainted.
• adj. sordid, squalid.

hard

• adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
• adj. Unquestionable.
• adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
• adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
• adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
• adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
• adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
• adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
• adv. (manner) With difficulty.
• adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
• adv. (manner) Compactly.
• adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
• n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
• n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.

limp

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen; befall; chance.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come upon; meet.
• adj. flaccid; flabby, like flesh.
• adj. lacking stiffness; flimsy.
• adj. (of a penis) not erect.
• adj. (of a man) not having an erect penis.
• adj. physically weak.
• v. (intransitive) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
• n. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore…
• v. (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
• v. (poker slang, intransitive) To call.
• n. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
• n. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
• n. A code-word among Jacobites, standing for Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of…

maggoty

• adj. (literally) Infested with and/or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of whims; capricious.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

micturate

• v. (intransitive, physiology, formal) To urinate.

moldy

• adj. Covered with mold.
• adj. Stale or musty.

moth-eaten

• adj. Containing holes by having been eaten by moth larvae.
• adj. old and in poor condition.

mouldy

• adj. Covered with mould.
• adj. Neglected.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) worthless; lousy; rotten.

musty

• adj. Having a stale odor.

old

• adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
• adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
• adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
• adj. (heading) Of an earlier time.
• adj. Tiresome.
• adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
• adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old,…
• adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
• n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

pee

• n. (euphemistic, often childish) urine.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, often childish) To urinate.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle.
• n. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money).
• n. (nautical) The bill of an anchor.
• n. The sliding weight on a steelyard.

pee-pee

• n. (colloquial, usually childish) Urine.
• n. (colloquial, usually childish) The penis; male genitalia.
• v. (hypocoristic, slang) To urinate.

piddle

• n. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) An act of urination.
• v. (Britain, euphemistic, slang) To urinate.
• v. To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss and followed by away.

piss

• n. (vulgar) Urine.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar) To urinate.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.

puddle

• n. A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
• n. (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
• n. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
• v. To form a puddle.
• v. To play or splash in a puddle.
• v. To process iron by means of puddling.
• v. To line a canal with puddle (clay).
• v. To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research…
• v. To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
• v. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).

rancid

• adj. Being rank in taste or smell.
• adj. Offensive.

spoiled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of spoil.
• adj. Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
• adj. (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.

spoilt

• adj. (Britain) Having lost its original value.
• adj. Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
• adj. (of a person, usually a child) Having a selfish or greedy character due to pampering.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of spoil.

unoriginal

• adj. lacking originality.

urinate

• v. (urology) To pass urine from the body.

wee

• adj. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England, New Zealand) Small, little.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) urine.
• n. (colloquial) An act of urination.
• v. (colloquial) To urinate.
• pron. obsolete emphatic of we.

wee-wee

• n. (childish, slang) Urine; pee-pee.
• n. (childish, slang) The penis; male genitalia; pee-pee.
• v. (intransitive, informal, childish) to urinate.

wilted

• adj. (of plants) Drooping, typically due to lack of water.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wilt.