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stale has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is fresh.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
“stale bread”
lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
“moth-eaten theories about race”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for stale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.