prosaic
Meaning of prosaic
adjective
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
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CatalanHyphenation of prosaic
pro-saic
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- prosaic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
prosaic synonyms
Meaning pedestrian:
Meaning commonplace:
commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous
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Words that rhyme with prosaic
saic, unpharasaic, Pharisaic, antipharisaic, paradisaic, pharisaic, Mosaic, comicoprosaic, mosaic, nonprosaic, photomosaic, premosaic, unprosaic, Passaic, Wassaic
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