prosaic

«prosaic» in Mova's school dictionary: Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (prosaic, more prosaic, most prosaic)

meaning for a pupil

Ordinary and dull; not imaginative or exciting. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a plain, everyday thing is set against a magic or fancy one

examples

• The cow is a prosaic animal, not a magic one. tree →
• His prosaic answer disappointed the children. tree →
• We went by a prosaic bus, not a flying carpet. tree →
• The story had a prosaic ending. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «prosaic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.