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Перевод: prosy

[прилагательное]
прозаический; прозаичный; скучный; банальный

Тезаурус:

1. We are ready to be cheered; but we should first give a prosy scowl and ask of this poetic flourish, Is it true?
2. By 1819, if Shelley is to be taken as a reliable guide, Wordsworth's stock had gone down and down: "He was at first sublime, pathetic, impressive, profound; then dull; then prosy and dull; and now dull - oh so very dull! it is an ultra-legitimate dulness" ( Dedication to Peter Bell the Third ).
3. the prosy flow of the old dream,
4. The tightness and speed of the narrative, too, has its effect on the direct, concrete prose style which, too often in the earlier books, had become prosy and had lost shape in informative interpolations.
5. It is prosy and muddled: Plautus is wonderful (as good a cat as your horrible dog is as a dog), and there are excellent aphorisms.
6. We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson, a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland, retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion, to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences.