Fasili ya kamusi ya "prosaic" ni: kawaida au isiyoeleweka; kukosa mawazo, ubunifu, au ushairi. Inaweza pia kurejelea kitu ambacho ni cha kawaida au cha kawaida, kisicho na sifa au sifa maalum. Neno "prosaic" mara nyingi hutumika kuelezea maandishi au lugha iliyonyooka na isiyo na ustadi wa kifasihi au uzuri wa kishairi.
1. Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me.
2. It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic surroundings of neglect and dust and decay there was any ground for such fear as already we knew.
3. Now, months after their heartthrob swashbuckler died in a shamefully prosaic manner, from complications of an ulcer, millions of women still mourned.
4. Pandora could never turn down a puzzle, a chance to unravel a mystery, to answer the siren call of the new and break the tedium of the prosaic.
5. Had the prosaic finding of the coroner not finally put an end to the romantic stories which have been whispered in connection with the affair, it might have been difficult to find a tenant for Baskerville Hall.
6. There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men.