prosy

Definition

Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.

Etymology

From prose + -y.

Example Sentences

• "CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages."
• ""Well, well, we all get a bit prosy sometimes," said Lord John."
• "I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief."

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