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Prosaic   /proʊzˈeɪɪk/   Listen
adjective
Prosaical, Prosaic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition.
2.
Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person.





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"Prosaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dumfries, when his vitality was running low and he was laboring to supply Thomson with verses even when the spontaneous impulse to compose was rare, we find him theorizing on the necessity of enthroning a goddess for the nonce. Speaking of Craigieburn-wood and Jean Lorimer, he writes to his prosaic editor: ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... peculiar phase of the new liberalism has little directly to do with the specific tenets of theological Unitarianism, and in fact marked a revolt against the more prosaic and conventional pattern of English and American Unitarian thought. But this movement, known as Transcendentalism, would have been impossible without a preliminary and liberalizing stirring of the soil. ...
— The American Spirit in Literature, - A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, Volume 34 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Bliss Perry
... look closely, and meaning a mystery at the point where the painter intended to station you. Some landscapes there were, indeed, full of imaginative beauty, and of the better truth etherealized out of the prosaic truth of Nature; only it was still impossible actually to see it. There was a mist over it; or it was like a tract of beautiful dreamland, seen dimly through sleep, and glimmering out of sight, if looked upon with wide-open eyes. ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... the usual enthusiasm; and on his return to Pau, he passed the obelisk erected to Despourrins, the Burns of the Pyrenees. At Pau he recited his Franconnette to an immense audience amidst frenzies of applause. It was alleged that the people of the Pyrenean country were prosaic and indifferent to art. But M. Dugenne, in the 'Memorial des Pyrenees,' said that it only wanted such a bewitching poet as Jasmin—with his vibrating and magical voice—to rouse them and set ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles
... over her face there passed a wave of illuminating recollection. She was a prosaic, middle-aged woman, but for the moment she ...
— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


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