'Prosaic' definitions:
Definition of 'prosaic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay" [syn: matter-of-fact, prosaic]
adjective
adjective
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]
Definition of 'Prosaic'
From: GCIDE
- Prosaic \Pro*sa"ic\, Prosaical \Pro*sa"ic*al\, a. [L. prosaius, from prosa prose: cf. F,. prosa["i]que. See Prose.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. --Cudworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. --Ed. Rev. [1913 Webster] -- {Pro*sa"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Pro*sa"ic*al*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prosaic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actual,
- arid,
- ascetic,
- Attic,
- austere,
- bald,
- banal,
- banausic,
- bare,
- barren,
- bland,
- boring,
- breadwinning,
- businesslike,
- candid,
- characterless,
- chaste,
- classic,
- classical,
- cliched,
- commercial,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- direct,
- drab,
- dry,
- dull,
- earthbound,
- everyday,
- factual,
- flat,
- frank,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- hackneyed,
- ho-hum,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- humdrum,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- irksome,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- lean,
- lifeless,
- literal,
- lowly,
- lusterless,
- materialistic,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- moneymaking,
- monotonous,
- mouldy,
- mundane,
- natural,
- neat,
- nondescript,
- open,
- ordinary,
- overdone,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poetryless,
- practicable,
- practical,
- prose,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- realistic,
- routine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- sober,
- spare,
- Spartan,
- staid,
- stale,
- stark,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- stolid,
- straightforward,
- stuffy,
- tedious,
- threadbare,
- tired,
- tiresome,
- trite,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- undistinguished,
- unembellished,
- uneventful,
- unexceptional,
- unfanciful,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unnoteworthy,
- unoriginal,
- unpoetic,
- unpoetical,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unvarnished,
- utilitarian,
- vapid,
- workaday,
- workday,
- working