prosaic
Significat (Anglès)
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (usually) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
Conceptes
pedestre
Oposat a
poetic
Sinònims
unglamourous
Traduccions
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/pɹəʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
Etimologia (Anglès)
From Middle French prosaïque, from Medieval Latin prosaicus (“in prose”), from Latin prosa (“prose”), from prorsus (“straightforward, in prose”), from Old Latin provorsus (“straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).
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