Prosaic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROSAIC in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to prose, also PROSY
• having or using the style or diction of prose as opposed to poetry; lacking imaginativeness or originality
• commonplace; unromantic
• lacking imagination, dull
• Alt. of Prosaical
• not fanciful or imaginative
• lacking wit or imagination
• not challenging; dull and lacking excitement

Words related to PROSAIC

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Words that contain PROSAIC

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How to use PROSAIC in a sentence

• The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side.
• For me, Andrew Garvald, the prosaic trader, coming out of the darkness into this strange company, the foundations of the world had been upset.
• The steps toward it were prosaic enough, save as his imagination brightened them.
• To such, to the half-eyed and the half-souled, to the prosaic and the unsympathetic, be left all harsh condemnation of Coleridge.
• They were the mixed result of young and noble impulse struggling under prosaic conditions.
• It is possible that the comparatively prosaic results before our eyes at the end of all have thrown a chill over our political imagination.
• There is scarcely a man of them whose face with its wild, oriental beauty, does not show to advantage among us civilized and prosaic Christians.
• Then came a day when the book was laid aside, and the impassioned utterances of poetry gave place to the more prosaic but not less fervent accents of a newly-awakened passion.
• It is a sort of Make Believe Land which has never grown up, and which will never learn to be modern and prosaic.
• He differs from Milton in this respect, who is accused of having inserted a number of prosaic lines in Paradise Lost.
• Nor was there much in my surroundings to compensate for the prosaic nature of my work.
• He seemed like a giant tearing up the earth, rather than a man performing a prosaic task.
• He continued to like this prosaic kind of literary task even while he was writing novels with the most wonderful facility.
• Then Mary Ann, her eyes full of soft light, went to the sideboard and took out the prosaic elements of breakfast.
• This somewhat prosaic personality set off his more frivolous companion to advantage.
• The canal is his master hobby, the poetry of his prosaic existence.
• But our lovers had not struck the prosaic bottom yet, though they reached it sooner than either had expected.
• That drive was one of the most romantic episodes which ever came into my prosaic life.
• Her emotions, with all their intensity and all their exaggeration, retained the plain prosaic texture of everyday life.
• Hence, it must be condensed and compact, and must, for its highest display, get rid of local coloring, personal associations, and all prosaic circumscriptions.
• And in thus beginning Turner has placed his works above the level of prosaic painting of Nature, just as verse is placed above prose by the unanimous consent of mankind.
• We must walk on our feet, and be prosaic in this world.
• But the matter-of-fact, prosaic Ericsson declined, pleading pressure of work, and saying that he had no time to waste on music.
• Like a dream that lifts one from prosaic life into the places of precious remembrance I recall these long, happy days in the glorious sunset of his life.
• No, there was a much simpler and more prosaic motive than that.
• A prosaic and conventional tone pervaded even the poetry of the period.
• The more prosaic part of the business had then to be attended to.

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