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prosaic 音标拼音: [proz'eɪk] a. 散文的,散文体的,散文性的 散文的,散文体的,散文性的 prosaic adj 1: not fanciful or imaginative; " local guides describe the history of various places in matter- of- fact tones"; " a prosaic and unimaginative essay" [ synonym: { matter- of- fact}, { prosaic}] 2: lacking wit or imagination; " a pedestrian movie plot" [ synonym: { pedestrian}, { prosaic}, { prosy}, { earthbound}] 3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; " an unglamorous job greasing engines" [ synonym: { commonplace}, { humdrum}, { prosaic}, { unglamorous}, { unglamourous}] Prosaic \ Pro* sa" ic\, Prosaical \ Pro* sa" ic* al\, a. [ L. prosaius, from prosa prose: cf. F,. prosa[" i] que. See { Prose}.] 1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. -- Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. -- Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Pro* sa" ic* al* ly}, adv. -- { Pro* sa" ic* al* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 126 Moby Thesaurus words for " prosaic": Attic, Spartan, actual, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, banal, banausic, bare, barren, bland, boring, breadwinning, businesslike, candid, characterless, chaste, classic, classical, cliched, commercial, common, commonplace, dead, direct, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, everyday, factual, flat, frank, garden, garden- variety, hackneyed, ho- hum, homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, irksome, jejune, lackluster, lean, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, materialistic, matter- of- fact, mediocre, moneymaking, monotonous, mouldy, mundane, natural, neat, nondescript, open, ordinary, overdone, pedestrian, plain, plain- speaking, plain- spoken, poetryless, practicable, practical, prose, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, realistic, routine, run- of- the- mill, rustic, severe, simple, simple- speaking, sober, spare, staid, stale, stark, stereotyped, stock, stolid, straightforward, stuffy, tedious, threadbare, tired, tiresome, trite, unadorned, unaffected, undistinguished, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptional, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninteresting, uninventive, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, utilitarian, vapid, workaday, workday, working
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