| STALE | All too familiar |
| STALE | Antonym of "fresh" |
| STALE | Antonym of fresh |
| STALE | Banal |
| STALE | Beginning to go bad |
| STALE | Cliched |
| STALE | Clichéd |
| STALE | Days-old |
| STALE | Dried out (bread) |
| STALE | Dusty, fusty or musty |
| STALE | Far from fresh |
| STALE | Far from original |
| STALE | Flat |
| STALE | Flat and tasteless |
| STALE | Food that is far from fresh |
| STALE | Food that is no longer fresh |
| STALE | Food that's lived too long |
| STALE | Food unfit to eat |
| STALE | Gone hard |
| STALE | Hackneyed |
| STALE | Hard and dry, like bread |
| STALE | Hard, like bread left out too long |
| STALE | Hardened, maybe |
| STALE | Hardly original |
| STALE | Having lost effervescence |
| STALE | Having lost freshness |
| STALE | Having lost the factor of freshness as a food item |
| STALE | Humdrum, as humor |
| STALE | In need of freshening |
| STALE | Lacking crunch, as potato chips |
| STALE | Lacking freshness |
| STALE | Lacking freshness, as a baguette |
| STALE | Lacking spontaneity |
| STALE | Like Halloween candy in December |
| STALE | Like a beaten-to-death joke |
| STALE | Like a day-old baguette |
| STALE | Like a joke that's been told too many times |
| STALE | Like an old bagel |
| STALE | Like an old cigar |
| STALE | Like an old joke |
| STALE | Like an overused joke |
| STALE | Like bread for croutons |
| STALE | Like bread made into stuffing, often |
| STALE | Like bread made into stuffing, typically |
| STALE | Like bread used for stuffing, often |
| STALE | Like chestnuts |
| STALE | Like chips that have been out too long |
| STALE | Like chips that have been set out too long |
| STALE | Like crouton-making bread |
| STALE | Like day-old bread that's been left out |
| STALE | Like day-old donuts |
| STALE | Like hard, old bread |
| STALE | Like jokes you've heard before |
| STALE | Like last night's leftovers |
| STALE | Like last week's buns |
| STALE | Like many bad jokes |
| STALE | Like moldy old food |
| STALE | Like month-old bread |
| STALE | Like old beer |
| STALE | Like old beer or jokes |
| STALE | Like old bread |
| STALE | Like old donuts |
| STALE | Like old doughnuts |
| STALE | Like old jokes or popcorn |
| STALE | Like old potato chips |
| STALE | Like old rolls |
| STALE | Like old, dry bread |
| STALE | Like old, leftover bread |
| STALE | Like several-days-old bread |
| STALE | Like some humor |
| STALE | Like twice-told tales |
| STALE | Like two-week-old bread |
| STALE | Like very old bread |
| STALE | Like week-old bread |
| STALE | Like week-old bread, possibly |
| STALE | Like week-old doughnuts |
| STALE | Like yesterday's bagels |
| STALE | Like yesterday's donuts |
| STALE | Like yesterday's news |
| STALE | Moth-eaten |
| STALE | Musty |
| STALE | New tales got old |
| STALE | No longer a novelty |
| STALE | No longer crisp, as potato chips |
| STALE | No longer crisp, in a way |
| STALE | No longer edible |
| STALE | No longer exciting |
| STALE | No longer fresh |
| STALE | No longer fresh and pleasant to eat |
| STALE | No longer fresh food |
| STALE | No longer fresh, as bread |
| STALE | No longer fresh, as old bread |
| STALE | No longer fresh, like bagels or humor |
| STALE | No longer fresh, like bread |
| STALE | No longer fresh, like old bagels |
| STALE | No longer fresh, like two-day-old doughnuts |
| STALE | No longer in style |
| STALE | No longer new |
| STALE | No longer novel |
| STALE | Not fresh |
| STALE | Not fresh, as bread |
| STALE | Not in the least fresh |
| STALE | Old and worn |
| STALE | Old hat |
| STALE | Old tales are translated |
| STALE | Old tales improved |
| STALE | Old tales varied |
| STALE | Old, as bread |
| STALE | Opposite of fresh |
| STALE | Out of fashion |
| STALE | Outdated tales varied |
| STALE | Outdated, gone off |
| STALE | Out-of-date |
| STALE | Overfamiliar |
| STALE | Overused |
| STALE | Overworked |
| STALE | Passé |
| STALE | Past its "sell by" date, perhaps |
| STALE | Past its best |
| STALE | Past its prime |
| STALE | Past its sell-by date |
| STALE | Past its sell-by date, perhaps |
| STALE | Past sell-by date |
| STALE | Past the "sell by" date, maybe |
| STALE | Past the expiration date |
| STALE | Past the sell-by date, say |
| STALE | Past the shelf date |
| STALE | Played out |
| STALE | Ready to be used for French toast, say |
| STALE | Second story got old |
| STALE | Several-days-old |
| STALE | Shopworn |
| STALE | Showing deterioration from age |
| STALE | So yesterday, say |
| STALE | Spoiled bread |
| STALE | Stagnant and musty |
| STALE | Stuffy, as air |
| STALE | Tasteless |
| STALE | The draw in chess is ___mate |
| STALE | Timeworn |
| STALE | Tired |
| STALE | Told too often |
| STALE | Too often told |
| STALE | Too old to eat |
| STALE | Too-familiar |
| STALE | Trite |
| STALE | Unfresh |
| STALE | Unoriginal |
| STALE | Unoriginal, hackneyed |
| STALE | Unpleasant to eat |
| STALE | Used |
| STALE | Warmed-over |
| STALE | Week-old veggies |
| STALE | Well past its prime |
| STALE | Well past the freshness date, in terms of bread |
| STALE | When something is old or outdated, as with bread |
| STALE | *Hackneyed |