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prosily

prosily adverb: in a prosy manner.

Adverb

prosily (comparative more prosily, superlative most prosily)

  1. In a prosy manner.
    • By what magic could the young student escape the weary old professor, who was prosily proving Time merely a form of thought; a proposition of which, to judge by the little value he appeared to set on the subject of his discourse, he must himself have been fully persuaded?1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
    • He was earnestly but prosily orating at the audience.1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook

Forms of prosily

comparativemore prosily
superlativemost prosily

Origin of prosily

From prosy + -ly.

Questions about prosily

What does prosily mean?
Prosily means in a prosy manner.
What part of speech is prosily?
Prosily is an adverb.

Words near prosily in the dictionary

  1. prosify
  2. prosifying
  3. prosign
  4. prosigns
  5. prosilient
  6. prosily
  7. prosimetra
  8. prosimetric
  9. prosimetrical
  10. prosimetrum
  11. prosimian

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