prosaic
prosaic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. Ed. Rev. -- Pro*sa"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pro*sa"ic*al*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- bald
- bland
- blanket
- book
- boring
- call
- careless
- caught
- chaste
- childish
- cold
- colorless
- come
- common
- commonplace
- conte
- damp
- deadly
- dearth
- depress
- diffuse
- ditch
- dry
- dull
- dullness
- dust
- ear
- fact
- fall
- feeble
- feebleness
- flat
- flatness
- flatulent
- frigid
- heaviness
- heavy
- homely
- homespun
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is prosaic.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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