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What does prosaic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word prosaic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
  2. (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
  3. (figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring; humdrum; dull; unimaginative.
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As well as its widespread deployment in broadcasting, mobile text culture has been the language of prosaic, everyday transactions.
Many of his works consist of portraits or series of portraits of prosaic objects.
No more than we want our poems to be poetic do we want our prose to be prosaic.
The methodical and rather prosaic style may not have the literary skill of, say, Abanindranath Tagore's diary.
But both in his words and especially in his music, his language is surely prosaic.
The style seems prosaic and indicates a distance from the original oral narrative style.

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