staleness
81cliché — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. stereotype, plate, cut (See printing); truism, commonplace, platitude; banality, triviality, bromide (inf.). See maxim. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. commonplace, platitude, truism, bromide, stereotype,… …
82dullness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Quality of being boring] Syn. flatness, sameness, routine, uninterestingness, aridity, dryness, depression, dimness, drabness, tediousness, commonplaceness, mediocrity, tedium, monotony, deadliness, dreariness, insipidity,… …
83stale — [steıl] adj [Date: 1200 1300; Origin: Probably from Old French estale standing still, settled , from estal standing place ] 1.) bread or cake that is stale is no longer fresh or good to eat ≠ ↑fresh ▪ French bread goes stale (=becomes stale) very …
84stale — stale1 adjective (staler, stalest) 1》 (of food) no longer fresh or pleasant to eat. 2》 no longer new and interesting. ↘(of a person) no longer performing well because of having done something for too long. 3》 (of a cheque or legal claim)… …
85insipidity — n.; (also insipidness) 1. Tastelessness, vapidness mawkishness, unsavoriness, staleness, flatness, lack of zest. 2. Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, tameness, prosiness, heaviness, lack of interest, uninteresting character …
86stale — 1 adjective 1 bread or cake that is stale is no longer fresh or good to eat: go stale: This loaf has gone stale. 2 air that is stale is not fresh or pleasant 3 news or jokes that are stale are no longer interesting or exciting: the same stale old …
87banality — noun 1) the banality of most sitcoms Syn: triteness, vapidity, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, prosaicness, dullness; informal corniness Ant: originality 2) they exchanged banalities Syn …
88confuse — 1 Confuse, muddle, addle, fuddle, befuddle mean to throw one out mentally so that one cannot think clearly or act intelligently. Confuse usually implies intense embarrassment or bewilderment {you confuse me, and how can I transact business if I… …
89barrenness — n 1. childlessness, sterility, infertility, unprolificness, infecundity, Med. agenesis, impotence, effeteness. 2. unproductiveness, unyieldingness, unfruitfulness, fruitlessness; exhaustion, depletion, impoverishment; meagerness, scarcity,… …
90bathos — n 1. anticlimax, comedown, letdown, bringdown, drop. 2. triteness, triviality, superficiality, shallowness; inanity, insipidness, emptiness, vacuity, vapidity, jejuneness; dullness, lifelessness, deadness, staleness; weakness, thinness, wishy… …
