prose

adjective

Definition of prosenext
as in unpoetic

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Recent Examples of prose Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection. — Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024 Coincidentally, prose writer Percival Everett (American Fiction) recently released his own take on this subject, James (Doubleday, 2024), which garnered big sales and critical plaudits. — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 Her cool, detached prose style became synonymous with New Journalism in the 1960s and ’70s. — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024 Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that allowed for interstitial exposition. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for prose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prose
  1. unpoetic
  2. prosaic
  3. literal
Adjective
  • This was an obtuse and unpoetic diktat, a showy way to miss the fact that a song’s history—its use over time, by real people, inspired by the exigencies of ritual and action—can inform its meaning more than its mere lyrics ever could.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
Definition of unpoetic
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  • And another aspect is the world of television in Spain, this mixture of the sublime and prosaic.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • How the Thieves Pulled it Off The M.O. in the Gardner heist is much more prosaic than what people see on the silver screen.
    — KC Baker, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of prosaic
Adjective
  • Set in the long shadow of the 1870 Marias Massacre — in which U.S. troops murdered some 200 unarmed members of the Blackfeet tribe — Jones' novel presents a northern Plains haunted by its brutal history … and by literal vampires.
    — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
  • This is so odd — I was fascinated by this literal phone booth in the middle of the desert around 20 years ago.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of literal

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“Prose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prose. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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