Usually means: Ordinary, lacking poetic beauty.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. prosaic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prosaic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prosaic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prosaic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prosaic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prosaic, prosaic: Wordnik
  7. prosaic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prosaic: Wiktionary
  9. prosaic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prosaic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prosaic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prosaic, prosaic: Dictionary.com
  13. prosaic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prosaic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prosaic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prosaic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prosaic: Rhymezone
  18. Prosaic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. prosaic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. prosaic: Free Dictionary
  21. prosaic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. prosaic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosaic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosaic: Encyclopedia

(Note: See prosaically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
adjective:  (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
adjective:  (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.

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