| 单词 | prosaically |
| 释义 | prosaically (once / 34062 pages) adv When you do something prosaically, you do it in an ordinary, straightforward way. Some could even call it boring. While your poet friend announces that the sky is weeping, you might more prosaically say it’s just raining. When you state something without any added imaginative details or flowery language, you speak prosaically. The adverb implies a lack of originality as well. Your poet friend might add descriptive details to all weather reports, but to say it prosaically is to just state the facts. The Latin word prosa, or "prose," is the origin of prosaically and its related adjective, prosaic. WORD FAMILYprosaic: prosaically, prosaicness+/prose: prosaic, proses USAGE EXAMPLESOr, as Ms. Medine more prosaically put it, “There is something to be said about going big if you don’t want to go home.” Wall Street Journal(Nov 10, 2016) The data set, prosaically named the Study of Men Born in 1913, involved exactly that. New York Times(Jul 27, 2016) "Prosaically you could say that when scary things happen the dollar rises, and a stronger dollar is actually another negative for U.S. growth," he says. US News(Jun 30, 2016) adv in a matter-of-fact manner I applied my attention prosaically to my routine Syn unimaginatively |
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