The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prosaic \Pro*sa"ic\, Prosaical \Pro*sa"ic*al\, a. [L. prosaius, from prosa prose: cf. F,. prosa["i]que. See Prose.]
Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition.
--Cudworth.Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person.
--Ed. Rev. [1913 Webster] -- Pro*sa"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pro*sa"ic*al*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a prosaic manner; straightforwardly.
WordNet
adv. in a matter-of-fact manner; "I applied my attention prosaically to my routine" [syn: unimaginatively]
Usage examples of "prosaically".
I faced prosaically the fact that from now on I would need to work to eat, totted up my assets, which proved to be a thin body, good health, and a certain facility on horseback, and got myself a job as a stable lad.
Pharnaces met his death more prosaically than poor Laodice, beneath the blade of a sword.
Granville Stuart, one of the earliest pioneers in Montana, who later became one of the influential settlers and state historians, prosaically relates a story about the hanging of some horse thieves.
Europa is dismissed prosaically with a string of figures: diameter, 2099 M.
Wordsworth was perhaps the greater, because his bathos was the result of a deliberate and persistent attempt to enrich English poetry with prosaically versified incidents drawn at length from homely rural life.
Or more prosaically, a ride outside to help the geologists in field trips to the vast hazy rim of Valles Marineris or the lava caves of Tharsis.
It comprised the Watauga settlement among the mountains of what is now Tennessee, and was called prosaically (as is the wont of the Anglo-Saxon) the free State of Franklin.