Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Matter-of-fact and dry; prosaic.
- adjective Dull; commonplace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like prose; prosaic; hence, dull; tedious; tiresome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
- adjective Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull andunimaginative . - adjective Behaving in a dull way (of a person);
boring ,tedious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking wit or imagination
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He is the man who does the heavy business, such as prosy fathers, virtuous servants, curates, landlords, and so forth.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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"Do you expect me to say that I found you 'prosy'?"
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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He is the man who does the heavy business, such as prosy fathers, virtuous servants, curates, landlords, and so forth.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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Even the dramatic or ‘prosy’ monologues of Meredith and Browning seemed to bear the weight of a powerful poetic personality; and in late nineteen-and early-twentieth-century English poetry the idea of a sustained ‘tone’ was still central.
Ackroyd on Eliot 2009
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His best stories, essays, and poems went begging among them, and yet, each month, he read reams of dull, prosy, inartistic stuff between all their various covers.
Chapter 28 2010
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Increasingly, winning manuscripts are coordinated in the form of prosy verse novels--with the same arcs of storytelling familiar from workshop instruction in fiction writing.
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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Increasingly, winning manuscripts are coordinated in the form of prosy verse novels--with the same arcs of storytelling familiar from workshop instruction in fiction writing.
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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They're ideal for gifts, and for converting reluctant prosy types and ebook junkies into strokable paper and fine-printing aficionados.
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Even the dramatic or ‘prosy’ monologues of Meredith and Browning seemed to bear the weight of a powerful poetic personality; and in late nineteen-and early-twentieth-century English poetry the idea of a sustained ‘tone’ was still central.
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Heaven forbid that any "onus" be put on the reader to recognize that fiction isn't just a prosy version of a tv drama, with some written-out bits to supplement the talking.
Art and Culture 2010
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