prosy

comparative prosier · superlative prosiest · alternative prosey

1. Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
2. Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.

   "Well, well, we all get a bit prosy sometimes," said Lord John.

   1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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   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

   I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.

   1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19