prosy
/ˈprəʊzi
/adjective (prosier, prosiest)
(Especially of speech or writing) showing no imagination; commonplace or dull: he junked most of the prosy script his handlers had written for him...
- Her character portraits are cold and bloodless, the larger vision is prosy and constipated, and her self-conscious literary tone has the musty odor of a vanity-press poetry journal.
- Even so, better - perhaps - the fake-Scots of this bad-tempered poet's youth than the prosy dreariness of his maturity.
- With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.
Derivatives
prosily
/ adverb ...- But some actors declaim it with that incipient sob that used to be the sine qua non of the grand style, while others trundle along prosily.
prosiness
/ noun ...- And while language and the power of speech are the most consistent themes, the execution of the poems themselves - or at least of their translations - tends toward mere prosiness.
- While many of his contemporaries took poetry toward prosiness, he cultivated what turned out to be a dazzling talent for rhyme.
Rhymes
- mandarin jacket
- mandarin orange
- mandarin vase
- mandat
- mandatary
- mandate
- mandative
- mandator
- mandatorily
- mandatory
- mandatory award
- mandatory grant
- mandatory retirement
- man-day
- M and B
- Mande
- Mandean
- man defence
- man defense
- Mandeism
- Mandela, Nelson
- Mandela Plan
- Mandela University
- Mandelbrot, Benoît
- posse comitatus