prosy

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹəʊzi/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
  2. Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.
    — CHARMIAN. He makes you so terribly prosy and serious and learned and philosophical. It is worse than being religious, at our ages.

词形变化

prosier comparative prosiest superlative prosey alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
prosily prosiness unprosy
相关词
prose

词源

Etymology tree
English prose
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English prosy
From prose + -y.
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