prosaic
Meanings
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.
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”).
Synonyms
banal, beat, blah, bland, boring, cold, colourless, commonplace, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, earthbound, flat, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, matter-of-fact, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, snoozeworthy, soporific, static, stodgy, straightforward, tedious, uncool, unglamorous, unglamourous, unimaginative, uninteresting, vanilla, vapid, wan, weaksauce, wooden
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
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