prosaic
About 0.93 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
- adjective Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
- adjective 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.
Similar words
commonplace prosy matter-of-fact unglamorous humdrum uninteresting unglamourous unexciting unrhetorical earthbound
Often followed by
and as in but world than to of life
Word family
prosaically
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