September 30, 2008

prosaic

The Oxford American Dictionary defines this beautiful sounding word as

like prose; lacking poetic beauty.
unromantic; dull; comonplace.

The top three definitions of prose are

the ordinary form of the written or spoken language
a passage of prose
a tedious speech or conversation

A prosaist is either

a prose writer; or

a prosaic person

If someone calls you a prosaist, it could go either way.  Writers [...]