prosing

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adjective

Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

First used 18th c.Scrabble 10
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Meanings

adjectiveprosing (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWriting prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

    the prosing speeches of the honest divine

    1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC
nounprosing (countable and uncountable, plural prosings)

plural prosings

  1. countableuncountableTedious talk or writing.First known use 18th c.

    I did not like to propose an adjournment thither too hastily, but patiently endured the prosings of my cicerone in the interior of the church.

    1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
    1 more example

    He had great pretensions to wisdom […] but he was grievously given to metaphysics, and the prince found his prosings even more ponderous than those of the sage Eben Bonabben.

    1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prose

Origin

From prose + -ing.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

prosignsproing
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APA

prosing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prosing

MLA

“prosing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prosing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prosing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prosing.

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