prosaic
91prosy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See prosaic. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. stale, trite, common, prosaic; see dull 4 …
92unimaginative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. uninventive, uncreative, uninspired; imitative, stereotyped, hack, pedestrian, prosaic. See weariness, simpleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. barren, tedious, uninspired, unoriginal; see common 1 …
93uninteresting — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dull, dreary, tedious, humdrum. See weariness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. tedious, boring, tiresome, dreary, wearisome, prosaic, pedestrian, fatiguing, monotonous, dull, drab, colorless, stale,… …
94poetic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. poetical, lyric, lyrical, metrical, idyllic, rhythmical, tuneful, melodious, epodic, elegiac, odic, epic, epical, Romantic, dramatic, iambic, dactylic, spondaic, trochaic, anapestic, Heliconian, Parnassian, Pierian,… …
95uninspired — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unexcited, unmoved, unimpressed, uninspiring; see indifferent 1 , unconcerned . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. lifeless, spiritless, lacking creativity, dull, tired, trite, hackneyed, pedestrian, dull, bland,… …
96Imbecility — (Roget s Thesaurus) Folly. < N PARAG:Imbecility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 want of intelligence want of intelligence &c. 498 want of intellect &c. 450 Sgm: N 1 shadowness shadowness silliness foolishness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility… …
97Aleixandre Merlot, Vicente — b. 1898, Seville; d. 1984, Madrid Poet One of the most accomplished avant garde poets of the pre war period, Vicente Aleixandre served as a mentor to younger poets of successive generations, writing socially engaged verse in the 1950s and… …
98pedestrian — (adj.) 1716, prosaic, dull (of writing), from L. pedester (gen. pedestris) plain, prosaic (sense contrasted with equester on horseback ), from pedes one who goes on foot, from pes (gen. pedis) foot (see FOOT (Cf. foot)). Meaning going on foot is… …
99dull — adj 1 *stupid, slow, dumb, dense, crass Analogous words: *lethargic, sluggish, comatose: phlegmatic, stolid, *impassive, apathetic: *backward: retarded (see DELAY vb) Antonyms: clever, bright …
100prosy — adj prose, prosaic, commonplace, ordinary, dull, unimaginative, flat, vapid. See prosaic(defs. 1, 2) …
