Prosaic

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
 * The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
 * 1)  Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
 * I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
 * 1)  Overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum.
 * His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
 * She lived a prosaic life.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:boring

Antonyms

 * poetic

Related terms

 * prosaically
 * prosaicness
 * prose

Adverbs for Prosaic
hopelessly; consciously; dully; flatly; tediously; unimaginatively; monotonously; stupidly; tiresomely; endlessly; unconsciously; pretentiously; pitiably; miserably; vacuously; inanely; diffusely; heavily; drearily; impossibly; terribly.

Thesaurus
Attic, Spartan, actual, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, banal, banausic, bare, barren, bland, boring, breadwinning, businesslike, candid, characterless, chaste, classic, classical, cliched, commercial, common, commonplace, dead, direct, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, everyday, factual, flat, frank, garden, garden-variety, hackneyed, ho-hum, homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, irksome, jejune, lackluster, lean, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mediocre, moneymaking, monotonous, mouldy, mundane, natural, neat, nondescript, open, ordinary, overdone, pedestrian, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, practicable, practical, prose, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, realistic, routine, run-of-the-mill, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sober, spare, staid, stale, stark, stereotyped, stock, stolid, straightforward, stuffy, tedious, threadbare, tired, tiresome, trite, unadorned, unaffected, undistinguished, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptional, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninteresting, uninventive, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, utilitarian, vapid, workaday, workday, working

Etymology
From prosaïque: <  prosaicus: <  prosa: < prorsus: <  provorsus: < pro-: + vorsus: < verto: <.

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