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# prosaic

adjective (prosaic, more prosaic, most prosaic)

«prosaic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, a plain, everyday thing is set against a magic or fancy one

### Examples

- The cow is a prosaic animal, not a magic one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x1)
- His prosaic answer disappointed the children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x2)
- We went by a prosaic bus, not a flying carpet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x3)
- The story had a prosaic ending. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «prosaic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«prosaic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/prosaic.html) on Mova free.