Prosy

Definition: Prosy

Prosy

Adjective

1. Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot".

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

Date "prosy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Note: Prosy \Pros"y\, adjective. [Comparative Prosier; superlative Prosiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Prosy

Dullness

Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable".

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Crosswords: Prosy

Albanian

prozaik (earthly, prosaic), i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, second rate, substandard, trite, vulgar). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضجر (annoying, boring, dim, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏غث (lean, meager, meagre, pallid, scanty, sickly, thin). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, slow, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), отегчителен (boring, moldy, pesky, pestilent, prolix, provoking, tiresome, weary, wearying), прозаичен (literal, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, unimaginative, unromantic, workaday). (various references)

Czech

prozaický (down to earth, everyday, prosaic, unimaginative), nudný (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, jejune, slow, stuffy, tedious, tiresome). (various references)

French

insipide, ennuyeux. (various references)

German

langweilig (boring, dead, dreary, dry, insipidly, lackluster, lacklustre, lifeless, pedestrian, slow, stuffily, stuffy, tedious, tediously, unamusing). (various references)

Greek 

σαχλόσ (mawkish, namby-pamby, punk, silly, soppy, vapid), πεζόσ (afloot, infantryman, pedestrian, prosaic, prosaical, unimaginative), ανιαρόσ (borer, boring, drab, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosaical, stodgy, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Hebrew 

פרוזאי (matter of fact, prosaic). (various references)

Hungarian

unalmas (bald, boring, cut and dried, dry, dull, dusty, groaty, grotty, heavy, humdrum, insipid, languid, muzzy, pokey, prosaic, repetitious, tedious, tiresome, tiring, witless), száraz (anhydrous, arid, bald, bare, cut and dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, dryish, fine, husky, lean, prosaic, sear, sec, sere, stale, undamped), hétköznapi (casual, everyday, ferial, informal, ordinary, weekday, workaday). (various references)

Italian

prosaico (matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic), noioso (annoying, boring, dull, humdrum, onerous, pesky, slow, stodgy, tame, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, workaday, worrisome), banale (banal, common, commonplace, corny, dismal, hackneyed, mundane, platitudinous, trite, trivial). (various references)

Manx

prosoil. (various references)

Pig Latin

osypray

Portuguese

prosaico (literal, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, unimaginative, workaday), trivial (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, petty, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, puerile, quotidian, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), banal (banal, characterless, common, commonplace, dismal, flimsy, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosaic, quotidian, ready-made, stale, trifling, trite, trivial, undistinguished, unimportant, unoriginal, vulgar). (various references)

Romanian

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

Russian 

прозаичный (matter of fact, matter-of-fact, prosaic), прозаический (earthly, pedestrian, prosaic, unimaginative). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prozni (prosaic). (various references)

Spanish

prosaico (earthbound, everyday, matter of fact, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, workaday), monótono (dead alive, drab, drear, dreary, humdrum, monotone, monotonous, repetitious, singsong), aburrido (bored, boring, dry, dull, humdrum, slow, stodgy, tame, tired, tiresome, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Swedish

tråkig (boring, disagreable, drab, dull, dusty, humdrum, irksome, jejune, pedestrian, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, unpleasant, vapid). (various references)

Turkish

yavan (arid, bald, crude, cut and dried, dry, frail, insipid, jaded, jejune, meager, meagre, milk and water, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), bıktırıcı (disgusting, fulsome, irksome, sickening, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, wearing, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Ukrainian

нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tedious, weariful, wearying, workaday), буденний (everyday, workaday), прозаїчний (earthly, pedestrian, prosaic, unimaginative). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tầm thường (characterless, fiddle-faddle, fiddling, inconsequential, jerkwater, picayune, platitudinarian, platitudinous, poor, soulless, straw, trivial, unideal, uninsprired), dung tục bu�"n tẻ. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "prosy": antileprosy, leprosy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prosy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peosy, pordy, Porosz, presay, pressy, prezzy, prizy, Prkos, Procys, prody, profy, progy, Prolsq, prosa, Prosig, Prosim, prosit, proso, pross, prossy, prowy, proz, prsi, prus, pyrgos, tryosyl. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: posy, pros, ropy, rosy, spry.

-2 letters: ops, ors, pro, pry, sop, soy, spy.

-3 letters: op, or, os, oy, so, yo.

+1 letter: dropsy, osprey, payors, sporty.

+2 letters: cryptos, hydrops, leprosy, ospreys, propyls, prosily, prosody, protyls, pylorus, pyrolas, pyrones, pyropes, pyrosis, pyrrols, stroppy.

+3 letters: apospory, charpoys, eyedrops, gossipry, gryphons, hydropsy, hyperons, isospory, isotropy, koupreys, kryptons, necropsy, orphreys, outprays, overpays, paronyms, paroxysm, payrolls, polymers, porosity, porously, portrays, prophesy, prostyle, protyles, pyranose, pyritous, pyrogens, pyrostat, pyrroles, rhapsody, ropeways, serotype, spoofery, spookery, sportily, uroscopy.