English-Italian translations for prosaic

• prosaico
  Un esempio abbastanza prosaico riguarda il tubo della carta igienica. One fairly prosaic example is the toilet paper tube.
  Al di là dei principi democratici di autodeterminazione del Parlamento, in realtà troviamo un altro programma, prosaico come gli interessi finanziari personali dei deputati. Behind the democratic principles of parliamentary self-determination, we in fact find another agenda, one as prosaic as MEPs' personal financial interests.
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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