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stale

/steɪl/

US pronunciation
American sound/steɪl/
stale
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

US voice -> stale

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ဆချေးစော်နံသော။ အောက်သိုးသိုးနံသော။ ဖန်တစ်ရာတေနေပြီဖြစ်သော။ ရိုးအီ၍ငြီးငွေ့စရာကောင်းသော။ ဟုံသွားပြီးအကြံတုံးဉာဏ်တုံးဖြစ်နေသော။

Full entry

stale / steÇl / adj

၁။ ဆီချေး စော်နံသော။ အောက်သိုးသိုး နံသော။ stale biscuits/bread/cake ❍ the smell of stale cigarette smoke.
၂။ ဖန်တစ်ရာတေနေပြီဖြစ်သော။ ရိုးအီ၍ ငြီးငွေ့စရာ ကောင်းသော။ stale news / jokes / ideas ❍ Their marriage has gone stale.
၃။ ဟုံသွားပြီး အကြံတုံး ဉာဏ်တုံး ဖြစ်နေသော။ staleness n [U]

More examples
  • A packet of stale biscuits
  • [get/go stale] : Wrap the bread up well or it’ll go stale.
  • Stale air
  • Stale cigarette smoke
  • Stale news/jokes/ideas
  • [get/go stale] : He was getting stale and wanted a new job.
Synonyms
decayed, sour, old, musty, hard, fusty, out of date, past its sell-by date, gone-off, past its best, aging, anhydrate, antiquated, banal, bent, blistered, boring, browned, browning, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, clichéd, common, commonplace, corny, dead, dehumidify, drab, dried, dried up, dry, dry up, drying up, dull, dusty, effete, faded, fetid, flat, fossilize, fossilized, freeze-dry, freeze-drying, gone off, hackneyed, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, like a dinosaur, make thirsty, malodorous, mawkish, moth-eaten, mummy, noisome, out, out-of-date, overused, parch, parched, passé, past, pedestrian, platitudinous, rank, reeking, repetitious, rust, scorch, senescent, shopworn, shrivel, smelly, soak up, soaking up, spoiled, stagnant, stenchy, stereotyped, stinking, tasteless, threadbare, timeworn, tired, torrefy, towel, toweling, trite, unoriginal, vapid, watery, weak, well-worn, weltering, wizen, wizening, worn-out, yesterday's, zestless
Antonyms
active, current, damp, fresh, moist, new, original, underused, wet
Cross references
decayedsouroldmustyhardfustyout of datepast its sell-by dategone-offpast its bestaginganhydrateantiquatedbanalbentblisteredboringbrownedbrowningclichécliché-riddenclichédclichédcommoncommonplacecornydeaddehumidify
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