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prosaic
adjective as in unimaginative
Weak matches
- actual
- blah
- boring
- clean
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dead
- diddly
- dry
- dull
- factual
- flat
- garden-variety
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- irksome
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- lowly
- lusterless
- matter-of-fact
- monotonous
- nothing
- nowhere
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- practicable
- practical
- prose
- prosy
- routine
- square
- stale
- tame
- tedious
- trite
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninspiring
- vanilla
- vapid
- yawn
- zero
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Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It was, he said, nice to be dealing with prosaic concerns again.
From Los Angeles Times
There are hundreds of such passages throughout this 400-page book, which elevates the most prosaic of details, into hymn.
From Los Angeles Times
There are other, more prosaic, means of retaliation.
From Los Angeles Times
Are they a shield or for something more prosaic, short-sightedness perhaps?
From BBC
Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.
From Los Angeles Times
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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