prosaic
[proh-zey-ik]
- 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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Sometimes pro·sa·i·cal.
Origin of prosaic
Synonyms for prosaic
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prosaic
- lacking imagination
- having the characteristics of prose
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Word Origin for prosaic
C16: from Late Latin prōsaicus, from Latin prōsa prose
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Word Origin and History for prosaicness
prosaic
1650s, "having to do with prose," from Middle French prosaique and directly from Medieval Latin prosaicus "in prose" (16c.), from Latin prosa "prose" (see prose). Meaning "having the character of prose (in contrast to the feeling of poetry)" is by 1746; extended sense of "ordinary" is by 1813, both from French.
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