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stale
/steɪl/ adjectiveDefinition
OLD › old and not fresh: stale bread Cake goes stale quickly if it's not covered.
BORING › boring or bored, and not producing or feeling excitement or enthusiasm like before: After 21 years their marriage had begun to go stale. I'd been too long in the same job and was getting stale.
(Definition of stale adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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