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] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prosaic
adj 1: 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]
2: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn:
pedestrian, prosy, earthbound]
3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an
unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum,
unglamorous, unglamourous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "prosaic":
Attic, Spartan, actual, arid, ascetic, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
commonplace, earthbound, humdrum, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosy, unglamorous, unglamourous
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