Definition of PROSAIC

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”).

Antonyms

poetic

Scrabble Score: 11

prosaic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
prosaic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prosaic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

prosaic: valid Words With Friends Word