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staleness

/steyl/US // steɪl //UK // (steɪl) //

僵化,呆滞,僵硬,僵硬性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    stal·er, stal·est.

    • : not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
    • : musty; stagnant: stale air.
    • : having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke.
    • : having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation.
    • : Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim.
  1. 1

    staled, stal·ing.

    • : to make or become stale.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininsipidness
Synonyms
aridity干旱化,干旱性,干旱,干旱化程度blandness平静性,平整性,平静,平原boredom无聊,百无聊赖,无聊症,无聊的人colorlessness无色性,无色,无色的,无色透明commonplaceness普通性,共同点,共同性,普通的地方drabness单调乏味,单调性,单调,单调无味dreariness枯燥无味,沉闷,枯燥乏味,沉闷的气氛dryness干性,干燥,燥症,燥familiarity熟悉程度,熟悉度,熟悉,熟悉情况flatness平坦度,平整度,平坦性,平面度flavorlessness无味,无味性,无味的,没有味道gentility温文尔雅,绅士风度,文雅,君子之风insipidness平淡无奇,平淡,平淡无味,平淡如水jejuneness洁身自好,洁琼性,洁身自爱,洁癖lifelessness无生命,无生命力,无生命状态,无生机mildness温和,温和度,温和性,温和的routine常规,例行公事,日常工作,常规的sameness同一性,同质性,相同性,同质化slowness缓慢,迟钝,迟缓,慢性sterileness不育症,无菌性,无菌,无菌状态sterility不孕不育,不育症,不孕症,不育性stodginess固执,坚固性,坚守,固守tediousness乏味,乏味性,乏味的,烦琐tedium乏味,枯燥乏味,枯燥无味,枯燥乏味的生活uninterestingness无趣,无趣性,无趣的人,无趣的vapidity虚拟性,空化率,空白度,虚拟化vapidness虚无缥缈,软弱无力,空虚,虚浮weariness疲惫,疲惫感,疲倦,疲劳asepticism无菌主义,无菌学,无菌技术,无菌innocuousness无害化,无害,无害性,无辜monotomy单解,单体解剖,单解法,单体解剖学
as ininsipidity
Synonyms
aridity干旱化,干旱性,干旱,干旱化程度blandness平静性,平整性,平静,平原boredom无聊,百无聊赖,无聊症,无聊的人colorlessness无色性,无色,无色的,无色透明commonplaceness普通性,共同点,共同性,普通的地方drabness单调乏味,单调性,单调,单调无味dreariness枯燥无味,沉闷,枯燥乏味,沉闷的气氛dryness干性,干燥,燥症,燥familiarity熟悉程度,熟悉度,熟悉,熟悉情况flatness平坦度,平整度,平坦性,平面度flavorlessness无味,无味性,无味的,没有味道gentility温文尔雅,绅士风度,文雅,君子之风insipidness平淡无奇,平淡,平淡无味,平淡如水jejuneness洁身自好,洁琼性,洁身自爱,洁癖lifelessness无生命,无生命力,无生命状态,无生机mildness温和,温和度,温和性,温和的routine常规,例行公事,日常工作,常规的sameness同一性,同质性,相同性,同质化slowness缓慢,迟钝,迟缓,慢性sterileness不育症,无菌性,无菌,无菌状态sterility不孕不育,不育症,不孕症,不育性stodginess固执,坚固性,坚守,固守tediousness乏味,乏味性,乏味的,烦琐tedium乏味,枯燥乏味,枯燥无味,枯燥乏味的生活uninterestingness无趣,无趣性,无趣的人,无趣的vapidity虚拟性,空化率,空白度,虚拟化vapidness虚无缥缈,软弱无力,空虚,虚浮weariness疲惫,疲惫感,疲倦,疲劳asepticism无菌主义,无菌学,无菌技术,无菌innocuousness无害化,无害,无害性,无辜monotomy单解,单体解剖,单解法,单体解剖学

Examples

  • To make them, I start by cutting a loaf of stale sourdough bread into large cubes and scattering them across a sheet tray.

  • If Zoom and other video chats have grown stale, hosting your own small get-togethers is a possibility.

  • The product lines in the CPG category are all hotly competitive, and profit margins, already low, shrivel quickly once a brand grows stale.

  • Kohl’s problem is that too many of its store brands grew stale, particularly in apparel.

  • Conversely, if the queue worker does not run frequently enough, the queue will stay high, and stale pages will remain in cache and be served to end users for longer than desired.

  • Both are stale and boring, and whichever one you end up having in the end is still unpleasant.

  • To call them mediocre, uninspiring, and stale would be overly generous.

  • The issues seem “stale” only because the commentators demand to be entertained.

  • Instead, they will be at best a stale and bitter punchline of our times and then fade, unloved, into obscurity.

  • Fine, she says, but they lived on three stale sandwiches a day.

  • The outside, also, well polished with sweet oil and stale milk, then enveloped in chamois leather.

  • They also know how to blow out and dress stale poultry, so as to make it look quite fresh and plump.

  • It reeked with stale tobacco-smoke, the smell of cookery, and the odors of frowsy clothes.

  • Long habit had not made her merit stale to me—the flavor of it was always fresh and new.

  • Let us have your news anyway, and forgive this silly stale effusion.