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Definition of Prosy
1. Adjective. Lacking wit or imagination. "A pedestrian movie plot"
Similar to: Uninteresting
Derivative terms: Prosaicness, Prose, Prosiness
Definition of Prosy
1. a. Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
Definition of Prosy
1. Adjective. Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative. ¹
2. Adjective. Behaving in a dull way (of a person); boring, tedious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prosy
1. prosaic [adj PROSIER, PROSIEST] - See also: prosaic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosy
Literary usage of Prosy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"... hint from somebody who watches the course of the conversation, and means
through him to have a hand in it and stop any of us when we are getting prosy. ..."
2. 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. ... prosy ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1826)
"And therefore every benefice with cure is subject to procuration or prosy.
But if there be a parsonage, and also a vicarage endowed, there shall be one ..."
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