Prosy \Pros"y\, a. [Compar. Prosier; superl. Prosiest.]
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1. Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
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2. Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prosy
adj : lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn:
pedestrian, prosaic, earthbound]
[also: prosiest, prosier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "prosy":
Attic, Spartan, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barren, candid,
chaste, classic, classical, common, commonplace, direct, drab, dry,
dull, earthbound, everyday, flat, frank, garden, garden-variety,
homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid,
lackluster, lean, lifeless, literal, lusterless, matter-of-fact,
mundane, natural, neat, nondescript, open, ordinary, pedestrian,
plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, prosaic, prose,
prosing, pure, pure and simple, rustic, severe, simple,
simple-speaking, sober, spare, staid, stark, stolid,
straightforward, stuffy, tiresome, unadorned, unaffected,
unembellished, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative,
unimpassioned, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic,
unpoetical, unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, vapid,
workaday, workday
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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