Prosy

//ˈpɹəʊzi// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
  2. 2
    Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.

    "CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking wit or imagination wordnet

Synonyms

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prosaicaridasceticatticausterebald

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"CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages."

Etymology

From prose + -y.

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