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Definition: PROSAICAL |
PROSAICALAdjective1. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. 2. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. |
Date "PROSAICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "PROSAICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | μονότονοσ (blank, monotonous, prosaic, unvaried), πεζόσ (afloot, infantryman, pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, unimaginative), ανιαρόσ (borer, boring, drab, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosy, stodgy, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome, weary), τετριμμένοσ (banal, commonplace, hackneyed, outworn, platitudinous, prosaic, shopworn, threadbare, trite, well worn, worn out). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | osaicalpray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PROSAICAL": prosaically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: caporals. | |
-2 letters: apicals, asocial, caporal, carpals, parasol, picaras, picaros, prosaic, solaria, spacial. | |
-3 letters: apical, capias, capris, caroli, carols, carpal, claros, coalas, copals, copras, corals, craals, lascar, lorica, palais, parols, pascal, picara, picaro, polars, racial, rascal, sacral, sailor, scalar, scoria, social, spiral, sporal. | |
-4 letters: acari, alias, arias, arils, aspic, calos, capos, carls, carol, carpi, carps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: applicators, piscatorial, postcranial, prosaically, rapaciously, rapscallion, rhapsodical. | |
+3 letters: archesporial, archipelagos, laparoscopic, parfocalizes, parochialism, rapscallions, sarcoplasmic, spectatorial, sporadically. | |
+4 letters: aphrodisiacal, archipelagoes, astrophysical, coplanarities, laparoscopies, laparoscopist, parasitologic, parfocalities, parochialisms, plantocracies, postcranially, proclamations, rhapsodically. | |
+5 letters: achondroplasia, aphoristically, archiepiscopal, claustrophobia, conspirational, conspiratorial, cosmographical, cycloparaffins, discographical, ergastoplasmic, laparoscopists, particleboards, pharmacologies, pharmacologist, phraseological, polysaccharide, reapplications. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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