Crossword-Solution: PROSAIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prosaic | a. | Alt. of Prosaical |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROSAIC | anagram | PICAROS |
We have 36 clues for the answer “PROSAIC”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Air cops (anag) – commonplace | 1 answer |
| Decidedly unexciting | 1 answer |
| prosing | 2 answers |
| Common place? | 4 answers |
| Lacking imagination | 7 answers |
| prose | 8 answers |
| workday | 9 answers |
| A MATTER-OF-FACT APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM | 11 answers |
| workaday | 14 answers |
| Matter-of-fact | 14 answers |
| Run of the mill | 17 answers |
| unwashed | 17 answers |
| obeisant | 19 answers |
| baseborn | 20 answers |
| Ho-hum | 20 answers |
| Run-of-the-mill | 20 answers |
| Blah | 22 answers |
| prosy | 22 answers |
| unromantic | 26 answers |
| Lackluster | 27 answers |
| plebeian | 31 answers |
| lustreless | 33 answers |
| Lacklustre | 38 answers |
| Lowly | 40 answers |
| Unimaginative | 45 answers |
| Trite | 55 answers |
| Pedestrian | 59 answers |
| Humdrum | 60 answers |
| mundane | 63 answers |
| Everyday | 64 answers |
| Commonplace | 68 answers |
| Tedious | 76 answers |
| Ordinary | 87 answers |
| COMMON ___ | 92 answers |
| B-o-r-ing! | 95 answers |
| Dull | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROSAIC (5)
Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality.
And to-night, having delivered himself of his _bon mot_, he had left Marguerite surrounded by a crowd of admirers of all ages, all anxious and willing to help her to forget that somewhere in the spacious reception-rooms, there was a long, lazy being who had been fool enough to suppose that the cleverest woman in Europe would settle down to the prosaic bonds of English matrimony.
And could she love where she feared? She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.
Beyond thirty! Romance, adventure, strange peoples, fearsome beasts—all the excitement and scurry of the lives of the twentieth century ancients that have been denied us in these dull days of peace and prosaic prosperity—all, all lay beyond thirty, the invisible barrier between the stupid, commercial present and the carefree, barbarous past.
You are very artistic and yet you are very prosaic; you have what is called a ‘catholic’ taste and yet you are full of obstinate little prejudices and habits of thought, which, if I knew you, I should find very tiresome.
Quotes with PROSAIC (3)
In love with myself, that is what people say I am. It doesn’t surprise me, for how could they notice that I can love when I love only you; how could anyone else suspect it when I love only you? In love with myself. Why? Because I’m in love with you, because it is you I love, you alone, and all that truly belongs to you, and it is thus I love myself, because this, my self, belongs to you, so that if I ceased loving you I would cease loving myself. What then is, in the eyes of …
Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity and an actuality that lacked a balance betwixt havoc and sangfroid. The intellectual capabilities of the excellent idiosyncratic talents of a man with an agog outlook for de minimis fringe entities had left the portal ajar for the enlightened few, to get a glimpse of the obsecure reality that most had decided to claim socratic ignorance to evade inquiries.
Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of a narrowly or mundanely functional or efficient option. No such limited horizon confined the thought and character of the great English-language utilitarian philosophers, whose influence ran its course from the period just before the French Revolution through the Victorian era. Happiness, for them, was more of a cosmic calling, the path t…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1977–2023).