prosaic
adjective/prəˈzeɪɪk/
/prəʊˈzeɪɪk/
(usually disapproving)- ordinary and not showing any imagination synonym unimaginative
- a prosaic style
Extra Examples- ‘Perhaps,’ he replied loftily, ‘you have too prosaic a mind?’
- Prosaic language can't capture or convey the experience.
- The final message is prosaic: practise as often as you can.
- They exchanged a few very prosaic words.
- not interesting or romantic synonym mundane
- the prosaic side of life
Extra Examples- Seafarers found it difficult to settle down to the more prosaic existence of life ashore.
- Daylight brought the prosaic world back again.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a prose writer): from late Latin prosaicus, from Latin prosa ‘straightforward (discourse)’, feminine of prosus, earlier prorsus ‘direct’. Current senses of the adjective date from the mid 18th cent.
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