prosaic
adjective
commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative.
prosaicness
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a word derived from
prosaic.
Example Sentences
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But a mill-village is one vast expanse of mediocrity and prosaicness, and it would take a bigger nature than Peter's to recognize the beautiful in such a life.
From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford
Its pretention to historic accuracy begot prosaicness in its approach to the style of the chronicles.
From Four Arthurian Romances by William Wistar Comfort
Thoughts have some characteristics of fancy, of freedom, even of unreality, which are wanting to the prosaicness of heavy material things.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres.
From Gulliver of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
They even increased the prosaicness of that to which before they had striven to give such a fantastic colour.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
