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Definition

lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

They reject life as prosaic, and create a death which they call poetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Essays, First Series
It is to be a cold, prosaic, matter-of-fact business proposition.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic surroundings of neglect and dust and decay there was any ground for such fear as already we knew.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

prosaic = lacking anything unusual

I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

prosaically = lacking anything unusual

That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

"Well, they will do it," said Japp prosaically.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot

prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)

He never left the cinema very quickly. It always took him a moment or two to return to the prosaic reality of everyday life.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

'Just so,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'my dear Mr. Traddles, I wish to be as prosaic and literal as possible on a subject of so much importance.'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

prosaic = plain speaking (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

Francie thought her diary would be like that, but excepting for some romantic observations on Harold Clarence, actor, the entries were prosaic.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting

The blotch, which until then she had regarded as the most prosaic of skin blemishes, had become an obsession.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting

prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (a bland manner — as though unconcerned)

Sassburger telephoned for ice, and the bell-boy who brought it said, prosaically and unprompted, "Highball glasses or cocktail?"
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt

prosaically = in a matter-of-fact manner (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)

In the most prosaic way possible.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

had been fool enough to suppose that the cleverest woman in Europe would settle down to the prosaic bonds of English matrimony.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

It seemed sort of prosaic to be hungry after all that had passed last night.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

prosaic = ordinary (lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging)

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

She spoke with scorn of the other inhabitants of the apartment-house, who were "so prosaic, so conventional..."
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

prosaic = lacking anything unusual, interesting, or challenging

It isn't just prosaic factors like the weather that influence behavior.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

prosaic = lacking anything unusual or interesting

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