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Prosaically

Definition: Prosaically

Prosaically

Adverb

1. In a matter-of-fact manner; "I applied my attention prosaically to my routine".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prosaically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)


Synonym: Prosaically

Synonym: unimaginatively (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Prosaically

English words defined with "prosaically": unimaginatively. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Prosaically

"Prosaically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prosaically" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2964,444

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Prosaically

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

Albanian

  

në mënyrë të rëndomtë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏على نحو ممل, ‏على نحو مبتذل (glaringly, oddly), ‏على نحو عادي (ordinarily), ‏بركاكة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скучно, прозаично. (various references)

   

Czech

  

prozaicky. (various references)

   

French

  

prosaïquement. (various references)

   

German

  

prosaische (prosaic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πεζώσ (prosily). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

prózaian, unalmasan (boringly, drily, dryly), szárazon (drily, dryly), laposan (flat, flatly, flatways), közönségesen, hétköznapian. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osaicallypray

   

Portuguese

  

prosaicamente. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prozaic (bread and butter, commonplace, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prosily, prosy, unimaginative, unpoetical, workaday). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прозаично. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prozaično (literally). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prosaicamente. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

prosaiskt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Prosaically

Misspellings

"Prosaically" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prosodically. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Prosaically

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-o-p-r-s-y"

-2 letters: capillary.

-3 letters: airplays, apically, caporals, collyria, crayolas, payrolls, racially, rascally, sailorly, socially, spirally.

-4 letters: airplay, apicals, asocial, calypso, caporal, carpals, collars, crayola, crisply, lyrical, pallors, parasol, parlays, payolas, payroll, picaras, picaros, pillars, pillory, pirayas, piscary, prosaic, prosily, pyloric, pyrolas, scallop, scarily, soapily, solaria, spacial.

-5 letters: aliyas, aliyos, allays, alloys, apiary, apical, callas, calory, capias.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-o-p-r-s-y"
 

+1 letter: sporadically.

 

+2 letters: postcranially, rhapsodically.

 

+3 letters: aphoristically.

 

+4 letters: anisotropically, astrophysically, atmospherically, diastrophically, macroscopically, polyacrylamides, saprophytically.

 

+5 letters: antistrophically, archiepiscopally, catastrophically, conspiratorially, crystallographic, misanthropically, stenographically.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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