Word Meanings - PROSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to prose; like prose. 2. Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROSY)

• Insipid
• Tasteless
• vapid
• uninteresting
• characterless
• flavorless
• flat
• insulse
• lifeless
• prosy
• stupid
• Stupid
• Dull
• senseless
• stolid
• doltish
• besotted
• insensate
• obtuse
• addlepated
• dull witted
• Verbose
• Windy
• prolix
• tedious

Related words: (words related to PROSY)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• BESOTTINGLY
  In a besotting manner.
• OBTUSE
  1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. 3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse
• WITTS
  Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.
• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• BESOTTED
  Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.
• STOLIDNESS
  See STOLIDITY
• WITTED
  Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.
• FLAVORLESS
  Without flavor; tasteless.
• WITTY
  1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem,
• WITTINESS
  The quality of being witty.
• WITTOLLY
  Like a wittol; cuckoldly. Shak.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• VAPID
  Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood. A cheap, bloodless reformation, a guiltless liberty, appear flat and vapid to their taste. Burke. --
• STOLID
  Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
• INSIPIDLY
  In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp.
• INSIPIDITY; INSIPIDNESS
  The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope.
• DOLTISH
  Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.
• OBTUSE-ANGLED; OBTUSE-ANGULAR
  Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
• DISWITTED
  Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• SODDEN-WITTED
  Heavy; dull. Shak.
• LEPROSY
  A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one
• UNWITTING
  Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant. -- Un*wit"ting*ly, adv.
• TWITTER
  One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
• HALF-WITTED
  Weak in intellect; silly.
• TWITTLE-TWATTLE
  Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.