prosy
adjective
1 prosy
Lacking wit or imagination.
synonyms: earthbound, pedestrian, prosaic.
Roget 598:
prosal†,
prosy,
prosaic;
unpoetic,
unpoetical†.
rhymeless†,
unrhymed,
in prose,
not in verse.
Roget 841:
wearying
etc.
v.;
wearing;
wearisome,
tiresome,
irksome;
uninteresting,
stupid,
bald,
devoid of interest,
dry,
monotonous,
dull,
arid,
tedious,
humdrum,
mortal,
flat;
prosy,
prosing;
slow,
soporific,
somniferous.
disgusting
etc.
v.;
unenjoyed†.
weary,
tired
etc.
v.;
drowsy
etc.
(sleepy)
683;
uninterested,
flagging,
used up,
worn out,
blase,
life-weary,
weary of life;
sick of.
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Roget 575:
feeble,
bald,
tame,
meager,
jejune,
vapid,
bland,
trashy,
lukewarm,
cold,
frigid,
poor,
dull,
dry,
languid;
colorless,
enervated;
proposing,
prosy,
prosaic;
unvaried,
monotonous,
weak,
washy,
wishy-washy;
sketchy,
slight.
careless,
slovenly,
loose,
lax
(negligent)
460;
slipshod,
slipslop†;
inexact;
puerile,
childish;
flatulent;
rambling
etc.
(diffuse)
573.
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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,
prosaic;
matter of fact,
commonplace,
pedestrian,
pointless;
weary stale flat and unprofitable"
[Hamlet].
stupid,
slow,
flat,
insipid,
vapid,
humdrum,
monotonous;
melancholic
etc.
837;
stolid
etc.
499;
plodding.
boring,
tiresome,
tedious
etc.
841.
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Moby thesaurus: Attic, Spartan, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barren, candid, chaste, classic, classical, common, commonplace, direct, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, everyday, flat, frank, garden, garden-variety, homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, lackluster, lean, lifeless, literal, lusterless, matter-of-fact, mundane, natural, neat, nondescript, open, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, prosaic, prose, prosing, pure, pure and simple, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sober, spare, staid, stark, stolid, straightforward, stuffy, tiresome, unadorned, unaffected, unembellished, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, vapid, workaday, workday ... show more.
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