Modifies a noun

• explanation: Instead, the evidence is beginning to point to a less prosaic possible explanation.

• reality: In its place was the prosaic reality of civil war between capital and labor.

• truth: But the prosaic truth is that public service reform is rarely all good or all bad.

• title: The mixed side had taken on the rather prosaic title of " Wakefield Morris Dancers " and this is the name that has stayed.

• reason: Others had migrated due to more prosaic reasons connected with faculty re-organisation.

• level: On a more prosaic level, what about the work we do every day in our schools?

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Most students would find all of this rather prosaic not to say archaic.

• too: And then I bump back into reality, knowing I would always be too prosaic, and just say a car.

• very: There are those who have a more " mystical " bent, there are those who are very prosaic.

• somewhat: Our son-in-law has never attended a poetry do before and he is a somewhat prosaic lawyer with a passion for football.

• seemingly: Could such a mixed bag of papers have been created by the seemingly prosaic measure of counting online hits?

• fairly: Landeck is a fairly prosaic place: Imst, another Small Historic Town, is the classier option a dozen kilometers further on.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: I've always loved the sight of windfarms, yet to be honest being up this close it seems more prosaic.

• sound: But underneath, a dense maze of melodic and gestural underpinnings paddle furiously to prevent the material from sounding prosaic.

• become: A theology that detaches itself from contemplation and praise does indeed become merely prosaic.