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PROSAISM

Definition: PROSAISM

PROSAISM

Noun

1. That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: PROSAISM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prose

Noun: prose, prose writer. prosaicism, prosaism, prosaist, proser.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PROSAISM

Non-English Usage: "PROSAISM" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (prosaism).

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Modern Translation: PROSAISM

Language Translations for "PROSAISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prozaizëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تفاهة (banality, inanity, insignificance, insignificancy, insipidity, nothingness, nullity, pettiness, platitude, triviality), ‏تعبير نثرى, ‏عدم الشاعرية, ‏النثرية الأ سلوب النثري, ‏إبتذال (platitude, prose, routine, triteness, triviality). (various references)

   

French

  

prosaïsme (prosaicness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πεζογραφία (prose). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

prózaiság (prose, prosiness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osaismpray

   

Portuguese

  

prosaísmo (flatness, prose), atitude prosaica. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prozaism (commonplace). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прозаизм. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prozna reč, prozaizam. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prosaísmo (prose, prosiness, tediousness). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

prosaism. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

прозаїчність (pedestrianism, prose, prosiness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vể nôm na tính tầm thường, tính văn xuôi, tính dung tục. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PROSAISM

Derivations

Words beginning with "PROSAISM": prosaisms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "PROSAISM"

Words rhyming with "PROSAISM" (pronounced 'Pro"sa*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROSAISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-m-o-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: porisms.

-2 letters: morass, passim, porism, primas, primos, prisms, sapors, simars.

-3 letters: amirs, amiss, apsis, arsis, aspis, mairs, misos, moira, moras, oasis, ossia, pairs, paris, pimas, pisos, prams, praos, prima, primo, prims, prism, priss, proas, proms, pross, psoai, psoas, ramps, rasps, roams, romps, samps, sapor, saris, saros, simar, simas, simps, soaps, soars, somas, soras.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-m-o-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: aphorisms, atropisms, mariposas, pastromis, prosaisms.

 

+2 letters: piroplasms, prosimians, prostatism.

 

+3 letters: angiosperms, comparisons, impresarios, misprograms, oarsmanship, paralogisms, parsimonies, pastoralism, patriotisms, personalism, prismatoids, proseminars, prostatisms, seismograph, symposiarch.

 

+4 letters: anisotropism, appressorium, atmospherics, azoospermias, comparatists, comradeships, corporatisms, diastrophism, foremanships, horsemanship, impersonates, leprosariums, malapropisms, malapropists, misanthropes, oarsmanships, overemphasis, parkinsonism, paronomasias, parsimonious, pastoralisms, personalisms, postorgasmic, preadmission, probabilisms, prognathisms, reassumption, sarcoplasmic, seismographs, seismography, symposiarchs, workmanships.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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