unstaled
English
Etymology
un- + staled
Adjective
unstaled (comparative more unstaled, superlative most unstaled)
- Not having gone stale; fresh.
- 1930, Snorri Sturluson, Eric Rücker Eddison, Egil's Saga, page xii:
- But the sagas have another quality which they share only with a few of the great literary masterpieces of the world : the quality of vivid, unstaled and undauntable life.
- 2008, John Buchan, The Dancing Floor, page 24:
- If you are a busy lawyer without any outside ambitions you spend your days using one bit of your mind, and the rest remains comparatively young and unstaled.
- 2011, Winifred Holtby, South Riding:
- But her heart was so so generous, her range of acquaintance so wide and her delight in human relationships so unstaled, that she could have spent a national income without difficulty.
- 2012, Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology:
- Burns' language is imbued with a momentum of its own that induces laughter and exhilaration – an effect unstaled by familiarity.
Anagrams
- unlasted, unsalted, unslated