Usually means: Ordinary, lacking poetic beauty.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Prosaic:

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  1. prosaic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prosaic: Merriam-Webster
  3. prosaic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prosaic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prosaic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prosaic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prosaic, prosaic: Wordnik
  8. prosaic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prosaic: Wiktionary
  10. prosaic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prosaic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prosaic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prosaic, prosaic: Dictionary.com
  14. prosaic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prosaic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Prosaic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Prosaic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. prosaic: Rhymezone
  19. Prosaic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prosaic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prosaic: FreeDictionary.org
  22. prosaic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prosaic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosaic: Legal dictionary

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  1. prosaic: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prosaic)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
▸ adjective:  (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
▸ adjective:  (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.

Similar:
prosy, commonplace, earthbound, matter-of-fact, humdrum, uninteresting, unglamorous, unrhetorical, unexciting, pedestrian, more...

Opposite:
poetic, poeticize, poeticise

Types:
dull, boring, unimaginative, humdrum, run-of-the-mill, matter-of-fact, more...

Phrases:
opposite of prosaic, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     brown,     olive, more...


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Similar:
prosy, commonplace, earthbound, matter-of-fact, humdrum, uninteresting, unglamorous, unrhetorical, unexciting, pedestrian, more...

Opposite:
poetic, poeticize, poeticise

Types:
dull, boring, unimaginative, humdrum, run-of-the-mill, matter-of-fact, more...

Phrases:
opposite of prosaic, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     brown,     olive, more...



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