[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prosaic \prosa"ic\, prosaical \prosa"ical\, a. l. prosaius,
   from prosa prose: cf. f,. prosa"ique. see prose.
   1. of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form
      of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a
      prosaic composition. --cudworth.
      1913 webster

   2. dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy;
      as, a prosaic person. --ed. rev.
      1913 webster -- prosa"ically, adv. --
      prosa"icalness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
prose prosa"ically prosa"icalness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

prosaic
     adj 1: not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the
            history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a
            prosaic and unimaginative essay" syn: matter-of-fact
     2: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" syn:
        pedestrian, prosy, earthbound
     3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an
        unglamorous job greasing engines" syn: commonplace, humdrum,
         unglamorous, unglamourous
see also:
matter-of-fact pedestrian prosy earthbound commonplace humdrum 
unglamorous unglamourous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

126 moby thesaurus words for "prosaic":
   attic, spartan, actual, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, banal,
   banausic, bare, barren, bland, boring, breadwinning, businesslike,
   candid, characterless, chaste, classic, classical, cliched,
   commercial, common, commonplace, dead, direct, drab, dry, dull,
   earthbound, everyday, factual, flat, frank, garden, garden-variety,
   hackneyed, ho-hum, homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund,
   infertile, insipid, irksome, jejune, lackluster, lean, lifeless,
   literal, lowly, lusterless, materialistic, matter-of-fact,
   mediocre, moneymaking, monotonous, mouldy, mundane, natural, neat,
   nondescript, open, ordinary, overdone, pedestrian, plain,
   plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, practicable, practical,
   prose, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, realistic, routine,
   run-of-the-mill, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sober,
   spare, staid, stale, stark, stereotyped, stock, stolid,
   straightforward, stuffy, tedious, threadbare, tired, tiresome,
   trite, unadorned, unaffected, undistinguished, unembellished,
   uneventful, unexceptional, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic,
   unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninteresting,
   uninventive, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical,
   unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, utilitarian, vapid,
   workaday, workday, working

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