prosaic
Adjective Satellite
- not fanciful or imaginative
- "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
- lacking wit or imagination
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
Adj
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
Adjective
- Lacking imagination or originality; dull or ordinary.
Examples
- His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
- His PROSAIC word choices never earned him more than single-digit scores.
- I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
- She lived a prosaic life.
- The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French prosaïque, from Medieval Latin prosaicus (“in prose”), from Latin prosa (“prose”), from prorsus (“straightforward, in prose”), from Old Latin provorsus (“straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).
Synonyms
commonplace, earthbound, humdrum, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosy, unglamorous, unglamourous, banal, beat, blah, bland, boring, cold, colourless, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, ho-hum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, pedantic, plain, plodding, prosaic, snoozeworthy, soporific, static, stodgy, straightforward, tedious, uncool, unimaginative, uninteresting, vanilla, vapid, wan, weaksauce, wooden
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
prosaic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordprosaic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prosaic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary