CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages.
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Prosy
/ˈpɹəʊzi/
Synonyms for "prosy" (96 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (48)
Adjective(2 words)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesadjectivedescriptive term
More specific
6 entriesbanal dictionliteral languagemonotone prosepedestrian dictionplain prosetedious phrasing
Collocations
6 entriesprosy languageprosy paragraphprosy proseprosy styleprosy wordingprosy writing
Inflections
2 entriesmore prosymost prosy
Derivations
3 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
6 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- прозаичен adj (without imagination)
- скучен adj (without imagination)
Finnish
1 entries- mielikuvitukseton adj (without imagination)
German
1 entries- nüchtern adj (without imagination)
Māori
1 entries- āmiki adj (without imagination)
Polish
1 entries- prozaiczny adj (without imagination)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
"Well, well, we all get a bit prosy sometimes," said Lord John.
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I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.
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