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| Main Entry: | stale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old, decayed |
| Synonyms: | dried, dry, faded, fetid, flat, hard, insipid, malodorous, musty, noisome, parched, rank, smelly, sour, spoiled, stagnant, stinking, tasteless, watery, weak, fusty, reeking, stenchy, zestless |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new |
| Main Entry: | stale |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overused, out-of-date |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, banal, bent, cliché, cliché-ridden, clichéd, common, commonplace, corny*, dead, drab, dull, dusty, effete, flat, fusty, hackneyed, insipid, like a dinosaur, mawkish, moth-eaten*, out*, passé, past, platitudinous, repetitious, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out, yesterday's, zestless |
| Antonyms: | current, fresh, new, underused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming older |
| Synonyms: | crumbling, fading, maturing, stale, waning, declining, developing, fermenting, getting along, getting on, mellowing, senescent, slumping, wearing out |
| Main Entry: | banal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | blah*, bland, common, conventional, corny, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, hokey*, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, nothing, old hat, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy*, zero*, bromidic, clichéd, cornball, cornfed, dull as dishwater, ho hum, noplace, nowhere, platitudinous |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bummer*, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, dull, flat*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
| Synonyms: | colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, familiar, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, mediocre, middle-of-the-road*, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, vanilla*, widespread, worn-out, boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, dime-a-dozen, familiar tune, garden variety, matter-of-course, unnoteworthy, workaday |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | corny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trite, clichéd |
| Synonyms: | banal, commonplace, dull, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, melodramatic, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stupid, tired, warmed-over |
| Antonyms: | new, original, unique |
| Main Entry: | dry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take moisture out of |
| Synonyms: | bake, blot, concentrate, condense, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, empty, evaporate, exhaust, harden, kiln, mummify, parch, scorch, sear, shrivel, sponge, stale, swab, wilt, wipe, wither, anhydrate, dehumidify, exsiccate, freeze-dry, soak up, torrefy, towel, wizen |
| Antonyms: | dampen, soak, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | hackneyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clichéd, tired |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny*, everyday, hokey*, moth-eaten*, obsolete, old, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, overworked, pedestrian*, quotidian, run-of-the-mill*, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare*, timeworn, tripe, trite, unoriginal, worn-out*, familiar tune, old-chestnut, old-hat, old-saw, played-out, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hokey |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corny |
| Synonyms: | banal, commonplace, dull*, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, trite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malodorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foul-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, decayed, fetid, foul, frowzy, funky*, gamy*, high*, infested, lousy, mephitic, musty, nasty, nauseating, noisome, noxious, off*, offensive, poisonous, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, smelly, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, vile, decomposed, fusty, pestilential, polluted, reeking, stenchful |
| Antonyms: | aromatic, fragrant, perfumed, savory, sweet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | moldy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | musty |
| Synonyms: | dirty, funky, putrid, rotten, rotting, smelly, stale, stuffy, airless, mildewed, mildewy |
| Main Entry: | obsolete |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer in use, in vogue |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, dated, dead, discarded, done for*, dusty, extinct, fossil, gone, kaput*, moldy*, moth-eaten*, old, old-fashioned, out*, out-of-date, outmoded, passé, stale, superannuated, superseded, timeworn, unfashionable, anachronistic, dead and gone, dinosaur, disused, had it, has-been, horse and buggy, old-hat, old-school, out-of-fashion, outworn |
| Notes: | things that are no longer used or needed are obsolete; things that are becoming obsolete are obsolescent |
| Antonyms: | contemporary, current, in vogue, modern, new, present, up-to-date |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | odorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having fragrance |
| Synonyms: | aromatic, balmy, dank, fetid, flavorsome, flowery, foul, fragrant, heady, honeyed, loud, malodorous, mephitic, moldy, musty, nauseous, offensive, perfumed, pungent, putrid, redolent, rotten, savory, scented, smelly, spicy, stagnant, stale, stinking, strong, sweet, unsavory, effluvious, miasmic, odoriferant, odoriferous, olfactive, olfactory, perfumatory, perfumy, reeking, savorous, scent-laden, scentful, skunky, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, tumaceous, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | odorless |
| Main Entry: | parch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dry, burn |
| Synonyms: | blister, brown, dehydrate, desiccate, evaporate, scorch, sear, shrivel, stale, wither, dry up, exsiccate, make thirsty |
| Antonyms: | dampen, moisten, wet |
| Main Entry: | prosaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimaginative |
| Synonyms: | actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, hackneyed, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, monotonous, mundane, nothing, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, vanilla*, vapid, yawn*, zero*, diddly, garden-variety, ho-hum, lusterless, matter-of- fact, nowhere, platitudinous, prosy, uninspiring, workaday |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rancid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, strong-smelling |
| Synonyms: | bad, disagreeable, disgusting, fetid, foul, frowzy, gamy, high, impure, loathsome, malodorous, moldy, musty, nasty, noisome, noxious, off, offensive, putrid, rank, repulsive, sharp, smelly, sour, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, unhealthy, carious, contaminated, curdled, decomposing, evil-smelling, feculent, fusty, nidorous, olid, polluted, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, reeky, soured, turned, whiffy |
| Antonyms: | perfumed, sweet |
| Main Entry: | rust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrode |
| Synonyms: | decay, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, oxidize, stale, tarnish, wither |
| Main Entry: | scorch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn |
| Synonyms: | bake, blacken, blister, broil, char, cook, melt, parch, roast, scald, sear, seethe, shrivel, simmer, singe, stale, stew, swelter, wither |
| Antonyms: | freeze |
| Main Entry: | shrivel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dehydrate, dry up |
| Synonyms: | burn, contract, desiccate, dwindle, mummify, parch, scorch, sear, shrink, stale, welter, wilt, wither, wrinkle, fossilize, mummy, wizen |
| Antonyms: | enlarge, expand, grow, unwrinkle |
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