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| prosaic | |
| 1. adj. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. |  |
| The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry. | |
| 2. adj. (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry. | |
| I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late. | |
| 3. adj. (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring; humdrum; dull; unimaginative. | |
| His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it. | |
| She lived a prosaic life. | |
