prosaic
[proh-zey-ik]
adjective
commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
of or having the character or form of prose, the ordinary form of spoken or written language, rather than of poetry.
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mundane, humdrum, drab, banal, everyday, workaday, actual, blah, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, dry, dull, factual, flat, hackneyed, irksome
Nearby words
- prorubricyte,
- pros and cons,
- pros-,
- pros.,
- pros. atty.,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prosaist,
- prosateur,
- proscenium
Sometimes pro·sa·i·cal.
Origin of prosaic
Synonyms for prosaic
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Word Origin for prosaic
C16: from Late Latin prōsaicus, from Latin prōsa prose
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