stale

stale is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
2. intransitive verb. Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
3. intransitive verb. Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
4. intransitive verb. Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
5. intransitive verb. Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
6. transitive verb. To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
7. adjective. To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
8. intransitive verb. That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
9. intransitive verb. A prostitute.
10. intransitive verb. Urine, esp. that of beasts.
11. transitive verb. Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
12. transitive verb. A stalking-horse.
13. transitive verb. A stalemate.
14. transitive verb. A laughingstock; a dupe.
15. verb. urinate, of cattle and horses
16. adjective. lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age

    "stale bread"

    "the beer was stale"

17. adjective. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

    "moth-eaten theories about race"

    "stale news"

    Synonyms: cold, dusty

Synonyms

cold, dusty

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stale:

astel, lates, least, salet, setal, slate, stael, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla

Common word forms

staled, staler, stales, stalely, stalest, staling, staleness

Words from these letters

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