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Meanings of prosaic in English
Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
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Examples for "pedestrian"
Examples for "pedestrian"
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He said another car or an innocent pedestrian could have been involved.
2
Between them, they provide Vienna with the finest pedestrian thoroughfare in Europe.
3
Bliss was not the first pedestrian traffic fatality ever recorded anywhere, however.
4
Silviniaco Conti was made to look pedestrian, trailing home seven lengths behind.
5
He was the fourth pedestrian of eight road deaths since last Friday.
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It is as common as going to bed; it is almost prosy.
2
I wished some dry, prosy petitioners in England could have heard it.
3
Very true; only, dahlias, at the best, are such uninteresting prosy things.
4
The witty chairman, the prosy chairman, the solemn chairman,- Iknowthem all.
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Treated with accuracy it becomes prosy, treated with fancy it becomes ridiculous.
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Unfortunately for Moyes, United's limits at the moment are far more earthbound.
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They were indeed preparing for war, a vicious and bloods earthbound war.
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But there's a new choice, one not restricted to an earthbound infrastructure.
4
Behind them, in grim pursuit, the small, earthbound figure of the stray.
5
Beyond that, houseboats can be just as ambitious as any earthbound structure.
Usage of prosaic in English
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I sometimes wonder whether the situation isn't even more prosaic than that.
2
In truth, the world of persuasion is a good deal more prosaic.
3
In the end the climax of the love-making had been prosaic enough.
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Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
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But the reasoning of the prosaic Englishman was thrown to the winds:
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Terse, strong, prosaic-thevery genius of the race was in the cry.
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It seemed such a prosaic way of growing such a luscious fruit.
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That sounded so prosaic; but to my surprise I found it true.
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Nickleville is the prosaic name of that little hamlet in western Pennsylvania.
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But this is only the practical and prosaic side of the question.
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He thinks I am hard and prosaic, and is disappointed in me.
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These are kind of prosaic uses of a bold new tech, no?
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The reality for the Garda Siochana is a little bit more prosaic.
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After the poet-psalmist came the prosaic and keen-sighted shrewd man of affairs.
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Such, then, in prosaic statement is the most characteristic message of Wordsworth.
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The canal is his master hobby, the poetry of his prosaic existence.
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Prosaic through the time
Prosaic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common