prosaic
IPA: proʊzˈeɪɪk
adjective
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
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Examples of "prosaic" in Sentences
- My most cordial thanks therefore for the gift which you call prosaic, and my best regards to your husband.
- Even in prosaic settings "aggressiveness can be beneficial if it helps you pound the table and say, 'I want justice!"
- The greatest things that the world has seen have been wrought out under the eyes of us, plain prosaic men that we are.
- Still other manufacturers wrap their cars in prosaic disguises in an attempt to travel on public streets without tipping off the paparazzi.
- The prosaic is an affair of description and narration, of details accumulated and relations elaborated, It spreads as it goes like a legal document or catalogue.
- In the first place, then, he had the good fortune to be born in the most prosaic of all countries -- the most prosaic, that is, in external appearance, and even in the superficial character of its inhabitants.
- Philippians 'renewed thought of him is likened to a tree's putting forth its buds in a gracious springtide, and may link with it the pretty fancy of an old commentator whom some people call prosaic and puritanical
- Out of these commonplace elements, elements that one might almost call prosaic, Wagner wrought his picture of storm, with its terror, power, joyous laughter of the storm's daughters -- storm as it must have seemed to the first poets of our race.
- Poetic prose may not be the best prose, just as (to use a false antithesis) dull poetry is called prosaic; but there is no natural antagonism between prose and verse as literary mediums, provided always that the spirit that animates them be akin.
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