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prosier

prosier is the comparative form 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

Questions about prosier

What is prosier the comparative form of?
Prosier is the comparative form of prosy.

Words near prosier in the dictionary

  1. prosey
  2. proshipper
  3. proshippers
  4. proshot
  5. proshots
  6. prosier
  7. prosiest
  8. prosification
  9. prosified
  10. prosifier
  11. prosifiers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prosier (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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