prosaic

ordinary, boring, not interesting

TRANSLATION

prosaic : alltäglich

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"The Russian Presidential Election: Epochal or Prosaic? - Russia's presidential election is scheduled for June 16, 1996. This week, as the formal campaign period begins, the field has been narrowed to two real candidates: Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation."

(The Forum for International Policy, May 20, 1996)

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Prosaic relates to prose as opposed to poetry and means dull, unimaginative, ordinary.

From Late Latin: prosaicus from Latin: prosa, prose.

Some synonyms: pedestrian, earthbound, not challenging, commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous.

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