prosaic
prosaic
Definition
pro·saic (prō zā′ik)
adjective
- of or like prose rather than poetry; often, specif., heavy, flat, unimaginative, etc.
- commonplace, dull and ordinary prosaic details of everyday life
Etymology: LL prosaicus < L prosa, prose
pro·sa′i·cally adverb
pro·sa′·ic·ness noun
prosaic
Synonyms
prosaic
Usage Examples
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.
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