Prosaic

//pɹoʊˈzeɪ.ɪk//

Synonyms for "prosaic" (205 found)

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Closest matches (41)

banal uninteresting actual arid ascetic attic austere bald banausic bare barren bland boring breadwinning businesslike candid characterless chaste classic classical

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cliched colorless commercial common commonplace dead direct drab

Adjective(12 words)

banal beat beaten blah bland boring bromidic clichéd cold colourless dog-eared drab

Adjective(1 words)

commonplace

Strong matches (62)

Related words (102)

nondescript open ordinary overdone pedestrian philistine plain plain spoken plain-speaking plain-spoken poetryless practicable practical prose prosing prosy pure pure and simple realistic routine

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Adjective(27 words)

pat pedantic pedestrian plain played out plodding prosy shopworn snoozeworthy snoozy soporific static stodgy straightforward stuffy tedious timeworn uncool unholiday unimaginative

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uninteresting vanilla vapid wan weaksauce white bread wooden

Adjective(4 words)

pedestrian prosy unglamorous unglamourous

Related word relations

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7 relation types

Antonyms

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poetic

Synonyms

3 entries

banal matter of fact unglamourous

Related terms

3 entries

prosaically prosaicness prose

derived

2 entries

prosaicism unprosaic

has context

1 entries

main usage

related to

18 entries

boring characteristic commonplace dull elegance feeling humdrum lacking matter of fact overly plain poetry prosaically prosaicness prose simple

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similar

4 entries

unexciting uninteresting unrhetorical

Translations

64 translations across 24 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

πεζός adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Armenian

1 entries

արձակ adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Bulgarian

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безинтересен adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
написан в проза adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
прозаичен adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
прозаичен adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Catalan

1 entries

prosaic adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

不帶感情的 /不带感情的 adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
乏味的 adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
就事論事的 /就事论事的 adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
平淡的 adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Czech

4 entries

jednotvárný adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
prozaický adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
prozaický adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
střízlivý adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)

Danish

3 entries

prosaisk adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
prosaisk adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
prosaisk adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Dutch

2 entries

prozaïsch adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
prozaïsch adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Finnish

4 entries

arkipäiväinen adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
arkipäiväinen adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
ikävä adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
proosa adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Georgian

2 entries

პროზაული adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
პროზაული adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)

German

2 entries

prosaisch adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
prosaisch adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Greek

4 entries

κοινότοπος adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
πεζός adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
πεζός adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
πεζός adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Hungarian

2 entries

prózai adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
prózai adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Italian

3 entries

prosaico adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
prosastico adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
terra terra adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Japanese

3 entries

単調な adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
散文的な adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
退屈な adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Kazakh

2 entries

бірсарынды adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
прозалық adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Persian

2 entries

بیروح adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)
منثور adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Polish

1 entries

prozaiczny adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Portuguese

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prosaico adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Russian

1 entries

прозаический adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

Spanish

2 entries

prosaico adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
prosaico adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Swedish

2 entries

prosaisk adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
prosaisk adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Ukrainian

3 entries

прозаї́чний adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
прозаї́чний adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
прозаї́чний adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Yiddish

3 entries

פּראָזאַיִש adj (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)
פּראָזאַיִש adj (straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry)
פּראָזאַיִש adj (overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.

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What a prosaic motive! It seems to take all the romance out of it.

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She soon grew tired of her prosaic life.

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The poet’s business is not with facts as such, or with inferences, but with truth of feeling, and the very spirit of truth. His function is ideal; that is, from the prosaic, the individual, the limited, he is to lift us up to the universal, the generic, the boundless. In compassing this noble end he may, if such be his bent, use the facts and feelings and individualities of daily life; and, by illuminating and ennobling them he will approve his human insight, as well as his poetic gift.

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