English-French translations for prosaic

• prosaïque
  Mais la réalité s'est révélée plus prosaïque. The reality was much more prosaic.
  Le rouleau de papier toilette constitue un exemple très prosaïque. One fairly prosaic example is the toilet paper tube.
  C'est ce que l'on appelle plus prosaïquement la méthode de l'engrenage et des petits pas. That is what is more prosaically known as the step by step approach.

Definition of prosaic

• Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose
• Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry
• Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring

Examples

• The tenor of Eliots prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry
• I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late
• His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it
• She lived a prosaic life

Related words

• prosaist
• prosaically
• prosaicness