PROSY (prosier, prosiest)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: prosier    , prosiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does prosy mean? 

• PROSY (adjective)
  The adjective PROSY has 1 sense:

1. lacking wit or imagination

  Familiarity information: PROSY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking wit or imagination

Synonyms:

earthbound; pedestrian; prosaic; prosy

Context example:

a pedestrian movie plot

Similar:

uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)

Derivation:

prosiness (commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting)

 Context examples 

You will be pleased with my mother—she is a little vain and prosy about me, but that you can forgive her—and she will be pleased with you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His best stories, essays, and poems went begging among them, and yet, each month, he read reams of dull, prosy, inartistic stuff between all their various covers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)