prosaic | Definition of prosaic

Synonyms and Antonyms of prosaic

1 being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events

an author with a knack for finding something of interest in the most prosaic details of suburban life

Synonyms of prosaic

average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, ordinary, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, workaday

Words Related to prosaic

regular, typical, unextraordinary

familiar, homely, plain, plain-Jane, popular, vulgar

customary, wonted

insignificant, trivial, unimportant

frequent, habitual

expected, predictable

Phrases Synonymous with prosaic

par for the course

Near Antonyms of prosaic

curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer

aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical

rare, recherché, scarce

fantastic (also fantastical), phenomenal

bizarre, far-out, Kafkaesque, outrageous, outré, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild

eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky (also kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox

freak, freakish

conspicuous, notable, novel, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented

singular, unique, unparalleled

Antonyms of prosaic

abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual

2 having to do with the practical details of regular life

my job at the TV station dealt with the much more prosaic business of cleaning the floors

Synonyms of prosaic

everyday, mundane, nitty-gritty, terrestrial, workaday

Words Related to prosaic

earthly, temporal, worldly

average, common, commonplace, customary, familiar, garden, generic, normal, ordinary, plain, popular, routine, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine (or run-of-mine), standard, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual

frequent, habitual, regular

expected, predictable

Near Antonyms of prosaic

high-minded, lofty, noble, sublime

aberrant, abnormal, atypical

exceptional, extraordinary, freak, peculiar, phenomenal, rare, singular, special, uncommon, uncustomary, unique, unusual, unwonted

bizarre, curious, far-out, funny, odd, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, quaint, quirky, remarkable, screwy, strange, weird, wild