Synonyms for Prosaic | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "prosaic" (172 found)

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Closest matches (35)

Adjective(7 words)

pedestrian awelessbanal ideablandest boring commonplacecommonplace phrase

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

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colorless commercial common commonplace dead direct drab dreary

Strong matches (51)

dry dull earthbound everyday factual familiar flat frank gardengarden varietygarden-variety hackneyed heavy ho-hum homely homespun household humdrum infecund infertile

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insipid irksome jejune lackluster lacklustre lean lifeless literalliteral mindedlowly lusterless materialisticmatter-of-factmediocre moneymaking monotonous mouldy mundane natural neat nondescript open

Adjective(7 words)

dull earthboundeveryday itemhumdrummatter-of-factmundanemundane routine

Noun(1 words)

more ordinary

Determiner(1 words)

most pedestrian

Related words (86)

ordinary overdone pedestrian philistine plainplain spokenplain-speaking plain-spoken poetryless practicable practical prose prosing prosy purepure and simplerealistic routinerun-of-the-millrustic

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Adjective(15 words)

plain platitudinous proselike prosier prosiest prosysterile environmenttameterrestrial studytriter unglamorous unglamourous unimaginative unornamented unpoetic

Verb(1 words)

sedate

Noun(1 words)

wearying

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries

literary formnegative qualityordinary qualitywriting style

More specific

8 entries

academic proseclear prosedull descriptionexpository proseinformational prosemonotonous prosepedestrian writingroutine account

Collocations

6 entries

plain proseprosaic descriptionprosaic languageprosaic sentenceprosaic styleprosaic writing

Inflections

2 entries

more prosaicmost prosaic

Derivations

5 entries

prosaical prosaically prosaicism prosaicize prosaicness

similar

3 entries

unexciting uninteresting unrhetorical

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.

Source: tatoeba (5749599)

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

Source: tatoeba (6622251)

She soon grew tired of her prosaic life.

Source: tatoeba (10803326)

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.

Source: tatoeba (12115347)

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Prosaic