📖 Ordinary writing 😐 Unimaginative words 😴 To speak dully

to prose

1 7.9

To speak or write in a long dull way

verb
/proʊz/

: divagar

She tends to prose on about her favorite subjects, leading to long and tedious conversations.

Examples

Novels prose along, setting up a familiar scene...

Blog text (32)
There is a difference: the poet is to ordinary people as poetry is to prose.

Academic text (1995)
After several hours of teaching, he realized he had been prosing about the topic instead of engaging the students.
During the lecture, the professor prosed at length, making it hard for anyone to stay focused.

Synonyms

to ramble

vsto prose

Informal

51 5.3

To talk or write for a long time without a clear point

focuses on being dull and ordinary rather than aimless speech

to discourse

vsto prose

Formal

2 7.8

To speak or write for a long time about a topic

is informal and dull rather than formal or detailed in tone

to platitudinize

vsto prose

9.9

To speak or write dull, obvious things instead of new ideas

is more generally dull and ordinary rather than only repeating clichés

Compounds

prose poem

Literature

2 7.1

A short piece of writing in ordinary sentences that reads like a poem

polyphonic prose

Literature

1 9.9

Rhythmic writing that uses repeated sounds to sound like music

nonfictional prose

4.3

Writing about real events, people, or facts rather than made-up stories

How Dull

to drone

14 5.8

to prose

1 7.9

to ramble

Informal

51 5.3

Surface Forms

prose infinitive

prosed past

prosed past participle

prosing present participle

proses third person singular

Etymology

Prose used as a verb means to speak or write in a plain, long, or boring way, and it comes from the same Latin prosa 'plain', so to 'prose' is to make speech or writing feel ordinary and tiresome.