prosaic
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
prosaic
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- Antonyms: poetic
- The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- Synonyms: humdrum, dull, unimaginative, Thesaurus:boring
- His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
- She lived a prosaic life.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- Their steepness and abruptness were even greater than I had imagined from hearsay, and suggested nothing in common with the prosaic objective world we know.
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