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# prosaic

«prosaic» in Mova's school dictionary: **Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (prosaic, more prosaic, most prosaic)

### meaning for a pupil

Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a plain, everyday thing is set against a magic or fancy one

### examples

- The cow is a prosaic animal, not a magic one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x1)
- His prosaic answer disappointed the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x2)
- We went by a prosaic bus, not a flying carpet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x3)
- The story had a prosaic ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prosaic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prosaic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.