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prosey

prosey is the alternative spelling of prosy.

Meaning of prosy

Adjective

prosy (comparative prosier, superlative prosiest)

  1. Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
  2. Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.
    • CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages.1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

Forms of prosey

comparativeprosier
superlativeprosiest

Questions about prosey

What is prosey the alternative spelling of?
Prosey is the alternative spelling of prosy.

Words near prosey in the dictionary

  1. proseuches
  2. proseukhe
  3. proseukhes
  4. prosewise
  5. prosexist
  6. prosey
  7. proshipper
  8. proshippers
  9. proshot
  10. proshots
  11. prosier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prosey (page history and authors); prosy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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