prosaic

prosaic
    adj 1: not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the
           history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a
           prosaic and unimaginative essay" [syn: {matter-of-fact},
           {prosaic}]
    2: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn:
       {pedestrian}, {prosaic}, {prosy}, {earthbound}]
    3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous
       job greasing engines" [syn: {commonplace}, {humdrum},
       {prosaic}, {unglamorous}, {unglamourous}]
    

Prosaic \Pro*sa"ic\, Prosaical \Pro*sa"ic*al\, a. [L. prosaius,
   from prosa prose: cf. F,. prosa["i]que. See {Prose}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form
      of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a
      prosaic composition. --Cudworth.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy;
      as, a prosaic person. --Ed. Rev.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Pro*sa"ic*al*ly}, adv. --
      {Pro*sa"ic*al*ness}, n.
      [1913 Webster]
    

126 Moby Thesaurus words for "prosaic":
      Attic, Spartan, actual, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, banal,
      banausic, bare, barren, bland, boring, breadwinning, businesslike,
      candid, characterless, chaste, classic, classical, cliched,
      commercial, common, commonplace, dead, direct, drab, dry, dull,
      earthbound, everyday, factual, flat, frank, garden, garden-variety,
      hackneyed, ho-hum, homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund,
      infertile, insipid, irksome, jejune, lackluster, lean, lifeless,
      literal, lowly, lusterless, materialistic, matter-of-fact,
      mediocre, moneymaking, monotonous, mouldy, mundane, natural, neat,
      nondescript, open, ordinary, overdone, pedestrian, plain,
      plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, practicable, practical,
      prose, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, realistic, routine,
      run-of-the-mill, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sober,
      spare, staid, stale, stark, stereotyped, stock, stolid,
      straightforward, stuffy, tedious, threadbare, tired, tiresome,
      trite, unadorned, unaffected, undistinguished, unembellished,
      uneventful, unexceptional, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic,
      unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninteresting,
      uninventive, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical,
      unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, utilitarian, vapid,
      workaday, workday, working