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What is the adjective for prose?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs prose and prosify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

prosaic
  1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
  2. (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
  3. (figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring; humdrum; dull; unimaginative.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic surroundings of neglect and dust and decay, there was any ground for such fear as already we knew.”
      “The dialogue between the characters, while littered with profanities and raw language, is verbose and prosaic.”
      “I find I prefer the dub to the subtitles for this series, as the subtitles are a bit dry and prosaic.”
prosy
  1. Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative.
  2. Behaving in a dull way (of a person); boring, tedious.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.”
      “Fancy prosy being in love with anybody, or anybody being in love with prosy!”
      “Sally was reserved about details, but clear about the outcome of her expedition with prosy.”
prosing
  1. Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
prosal
  1. Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Simoncini made the motion to withdraw the prosal, and board member Peter Munro seconded it.”
prosimetrical
  1. Consisting both of prose and verse.
prosimetric
  1. In the form of a prosimetrum.
prosaical
  1. Alternative form of prosaic
prosaick
  1. Archaic form of prosaic.
proselike
  1. Resembling prose.
prosier
prosiest
  1. superlative form of prosy: most prosy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Poor besonged, besonneted moon! whom the prosiest pen cannot scribble of without trying to invent a bit of original flattery for!”
      “For then, an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older would endure.”
prosed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prose
prosified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prosify
prosifying
  1. present participle of prosify
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