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Prosy

Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.

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Prose 74% connected

The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Prose 74% connected

The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical…

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Prosiness 74% connected

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

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Prosiness 74% connected

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

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Pedestrian 92% connected

Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prosaic 92% connected

Alt. of Prosaical

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Air noun · 78% connection

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which m…

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Beprose verb · 78% connection

To reduce to prose.

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Cadence noun · 78% connection

Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.

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Drama noun · 78% connection

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of g…

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Epigram noun · 78% connection

An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

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Garland noun · 78% connection

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.

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Grandiloquence noun · 78% connection

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

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Grandiosity noun · 78% connection

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

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Idyl noun · 78% connection

A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem…

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Machinery noun · 78% connection

The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended s…

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Magniloquence noun · 78% connection

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

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Mechanism noun · 78% connection

the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose styl…

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Miltonic adjective · 78% connection

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.

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Nonfiction noun · 78% connection

prose writing that is not fictional

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Nonfictional prose noun · 78% connection

prose writing that is not fictional

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Ornateness noun · 78% connection

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

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Poem noun · 78% connection

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by i…

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Poetical adjective · 78% connection

Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.

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