PROSY Synonyms: 146 Similar and Opposite Words

prosy

adjective

Definition of prosy

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Adjective

While the house is bursting with artwork that would make most museum curators envious, Herman’s home is surprisingly humble, built on a tight budget from prosaic materials.

— Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Trump’s extravagant welcome gesture will almost certainly be matched by prosaic summit outcomes.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of prosaic

Adjective

Japanese denim makers curate for customers eager to stand out from the crowd, and that has taken on a whole new meaning in the era of monotonous algorithmic recommendations and AI slop.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
His style, reminiscent of Nick Cave, is incantatory, and the result is that the not-especially-melodic songs tend to bleed into each other with a sameness that ultimately proves monotonous.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of monotonous

Adjective

There won’t be any tedious downloading of APK files or tinkering with a developer console—you’ll be able to send apps to the Play Store right from AI Studio.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 13 Oct. 2026
Multiplying two matrices together requires a tedious amount of arithmetic.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of tedious

Adjective

The actual reason the Dodgers lost, that the postseason in baseball is little more than a coin flip and small sample sizes flatten out any talent advantage, is boring and uninteresting.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
The city is flooded with dull and uninteresting structures clad in the material.

— Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of uninteresting

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The Chiefs turned that spiritless first half into a 28-7 blowout Monday night against the Commanders, opening the second half with touchdown drives of 80, 75 and 94 yards.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 28 Oct. 2025
From spiritless spirits to refusing to open up a bar tab, members of Generation Z are continuing to challenge alcohol traditions.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025

Definition of spiritless

Adjective

Borges may not be able to see the scenery, but delights in every scrap of local color, to a degree that the American — tasked with describing everything to his elder, in suitably lyrical terms — finds quite wearisome.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
But even the distinctive look becomes wearisome after not too long.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of wearisome

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