Prosy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prosy \Pros"y\, a. [Compar. {Prosier}; superl. {Prosiest}.]
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     1. Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.
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     2. Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prosy
       adj : lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn:
             {pedestrian}, {prosaic}, {earthbound}]
       [also: {prosiest}, {prosier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "prosy":
     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