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staleadjective used or heard so often as to be dullviewers were bored by the stale story lines of the new crop of sitcoms banal, cliché(also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn twice-toldbromidic, platitudinal, platitudinouscanned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginalnormal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usualarid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearyingold-fashioned, old hat fresh, new, novel, original, unclichéd, unhackneyed animating, energizing, enlivening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, stimulatingabsorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, rivetingatypical, extraordinary, strange, unaccustomed, uncommon, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unknown, unprecedented, unusualpathbreaking, pioneering, trailblazing causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interestthe sequel is basically a stale remake of the first movie arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritlessblank, earthbound, gray(also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacularannoying, bothersome, irksome, irritatinglongsomepallingdraining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearingdebilitating, enfeeblingdemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiritingcommon, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapidcumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky(or pokey) absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous(or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrousanimating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrillingamusing, diverting, entertainingmoving, poignant, touchingalluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinatingmesmerizing, spellbindingsuspensefularresting, provocative, tantalizing in the 15th century |