Word Meanings - STALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. But seeling the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen. Chapman. (more info) steel, G. stiel; cf. L. stilus stake, stalk, stem, Gr. stall, stalk,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STALE)

• Musty
• Fusty
• rank
• mouldy
• frowzy
• stale
• sour
• fetid
• mildewed
• Trite
• Worn
• hackneyed
• threadbare
• commonplace
• obvious
• familiar
• trivial

Related words: (words related to STALE)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• STALELY
  1. In a state stale manner. 2. Of old; long since. B. Jonson.
• FROWZY
  Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.
• FETIDNESS
  The quality or state of being fetid.
• MUSTY
  1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat
• OBVIOUS
  1. Opposing; fronting. To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. "Obvious to dispute." Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident;
• TRIVIALNESS
  Quality or state of being trivial.
• HACKNEYMAN
  A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.
• STALEMATE
  The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.
• TRIVIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
• FAMILIARITY
  1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
• COMMONPLACE
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• STALE
  The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. But seeling the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen. Chapman. (more info) steel, G. stiel; cf. L. stilus stake, stalk, stem, Gr. stall, stalk,
• THREADBARENESS
  The state of being threadbare.
• TRITERNATE
  Three times ternate; -- applied to a leaf whose petiole separates into three branches, each of which divides into three parts which each bear three leafiets.
• STALENESS
  The quality or state of being stale.
• FAMILIARIZATION
  The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
• HACKNEY
  haquenée a pacing horse, an ambling nag, OF. also haquenée, Sp. hacanea, OSp. facanea, D. hakkenei, also OF. haque horse, Sp. haca, OSp. faca; perh akin to E. hack to cut, and orig. meaning, a jolting 1. A horse for riding or driving; a nag;
• FETID
  Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.
• TRIVIALISM
  A trivial matter or method; a triviality. Carlyle.
• ATTRITE
  Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite. (more info) 1. Rubbed; worn by friction. Milton.
• RAKESTALE
  The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.
• HYPONITRITE
  A salt of hyponitrous acid.
• AMYL NITRITE
  A yellowish oily volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.
• ASAFETIDA; ASAFOETIDA
  The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant of Persia and the East India.
• VESTALES
  A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
• LITHOTRITE; LITHOTRITOR
  A lithotriptor.