Difference between Addled and Stale

What is the difference between Addled and Stale?

Addled as an adjective is inviable. containing a dead embryo. while Stale as an adjective is having lost its freshness from age. stale food, for instance, is food which is still edible but has lost its deliciousness.

Addled

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Inviable. Containing a dead embryo. Confused; mixed up.

Stale

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having lost its freshness from age. Stale food, for instance, is food which is still edible but has lost its deliciousness.No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old; as, stale news, a stale joke, etc.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bird used as a decoy to trap other birds.Any trap or lure.A low class of prostitute (originally used as a decoy by other criminals).A person's position, especially in a battle-line.An ambush.A division of armed men posted in a specific place, either for an ambush or for other reasons.

Example sentence: The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

We hope you now know whether to use Addled or Stale in your sentence.

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