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, alas! for the prosaicness of this workaday world, they had to assume the attitudes of lawyer and client; and discourse of crime instead of love.
From The Silent House by Fergus Hume
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
The worn prosaicness of nature was adorned as with jewels.
From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens
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
