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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Attic, Spartan, actual, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, banal, banausic, bare, barren, bland, boring, breadwinning, businesslike, candid, characterless, chaste, classic, classical, cliched, commercial, common, commonplace, dead, direct, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, everyday, factual, flat, frank, garden, garden-variety, hackneyed, ho-hum, homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, irksome, jejune, lackluster, lean, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mediocre, moneymaking, monotonous, mouldy, mundane, natural, neat, nondescript, open, ordinary, overdone, pedestrian, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, practicable, practical, prose, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, realistic, routine, run-of-the-mill, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sober, spare, staid, stale, stark, stereotyped, stock, stolid, straightforward, stuffy, tedious, threadbare, tired, tiresome, trite, unadorned, unaffected, undistinguished, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptional, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninteresting, uninventive, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, utilitarian, vapid, workaday, workday, working
Dictionary Results for prosaic:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
prosaic
    adj 1: not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the
           history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a
           prosaic and unimaginative essay" [syn: matter-of-fact,
           prosaic]
    2: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn:
       pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound]
    3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous
       job greasing engines" [syn: commonplace, humdrum,
       prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Prosaic \Pro*sa"ic\, Prosaical \Pro*sa"ic*al\, a. [L. prosaius,
   from prosa prose: cf. F,. prosa["i]que. See Prose.]
   1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form
      of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a
      prosaic composition. --Cudworth.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy;
      as, a prosaic person. --Ed. Rev.
      [1913 Webster] -- Pro*sa"ic*al*ly, adv. --
      Pro*sa"ic*al*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

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