prose
noun
1 prose
Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse.
Roget 598: prose, prose writer. prosaicism†, prosaism†, prosaist†, proser†.
Roget 843: dullness, heaviness, flatness; infestivity† etc. 837, stupidity etc. 499; want of originality; dearth of ideas. prose, matter of fact; ... show more
Polish: proza
2 prose
Matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression.
Dutch: proza
verb
Roget 843: be dull etc. adj.; prose, take au serieux [Fr.], be caught napping. render dull etc. adj.; damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on; fall flat upon the ear. ... show more
Roget 598: prose. write prose, write in prose.
Roget 584: be loquacious etc. adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; ... show more
Roget 573: be diffuse etc. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant. ... show more
Moby thesaurus: banality, bromide, causerie, chat, chestnut, chin, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, expository writing, familiar tune, hackneyed saying, in prose, language, lieu commun, locus communis, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, matter-of-factness ... show more.
prosing
adjective
Roget 573: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long drawn out; spun out, ... show more
Roget 841: wearying etc. v.; wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, ... show more
Roget 843: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively†, logy [U.S.]; unimaginative; insulse†; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, ... show more
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