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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.

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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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