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prosaic

adj
/pɹəʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/UK/pɹoʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/US

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”).

  1. derived from *wer-✻
  2. derived from provorsus
  3. derived from prosa
  4. derived from prosaicus
  5. derived from prosaïque

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.

    • The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.

  2. Straightforward

    Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.

    • I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.

  3. Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.

    • His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
    • She lived a prosaic life.
    • Our people are the most prosaic in the world, but the most faithful; and with curious reverence we keep up and transmit, from generation to generation, the superstition of what we call the education of a gentleman.

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Derived

prosaicism, unprosaic

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prosaic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA