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Definition of Prosaic
1. Adjective. Not fanciful or imaginative. "A prosaic and unimaginative essay"
2. Adjective. Lacking wit or imagination. "A pedestrian movie plot"
Similar to: Uninteresting
Derivative terms: Prosaicness, Prose, Prosiness
3. Adjective. Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement. "An unglamorous job greasing engines"
Similar to: Unexciting
Derivative terms: Prosaicness, Prose
Definition of Prosaic
1. a. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition.
Definition of Prosaic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain or simple, to the point of being boring; humdrum. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prosaic
1. pertaining to prose [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosaic
Literary usage of Prosaic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"Is the time we live in prosaic ?" " That depends: it must certainly be prosaic
to one whose mind takes a prosaic stand in contemplating it. ..."
2. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"prosaic The story of Ancus Marcius is entirely destitute of of*™e°e miracles.
... Ancus is the dullest and most prosaic of all the Roman kings. ..."
3. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"The steamer is much more prosaic—just as a locomotive is much more prosaic, and
convenient at the same time, than the old stage-coach ; her engines give her ..."
4. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... which holds together the constitution by its provident care, its admonitions,
retributive or rather disciplinary inflictions ;—a prosaic Empire, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"He was often negligent, tame, prosy, prosaic, and especially careless as to his
rhymes. ... prosaic ..."
6. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"It is a sight to thrill the most prosaic traveler. It seemed to me the very ideal
of chivalry and poetry crystalized in stone, not merely on account of its ..."
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