prosaic
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adjective- 1.
Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
- 2.
(of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
- 3.
(usually)(main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) 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.
Đồng nghĩa: humdrum, dull, unimaginative, banal, basic, beat, blah, bland, boring, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, pedestrian, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, tedious, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla
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From Middle French prosaïque, from prosaicus (in prose), from Latin prosa (prose), from prorsus (straightforward, in prose), from provorsus (straight ahead), from pro- (forward) + vorsus (turned), from vertō (to turn), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (to turn, to bend).