Prose - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |prəʊz|  American pronunciation of the word prose
Brit.  |prəʊz|  British pronunciation of the word prose

noun

- ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
- matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

Extra examples

She writes in very clear prose.

He was eternally prosing about the weather.

What a prose you are!

Her writing was full of purple prose.

But even if you think I may be biased about the book's conclusions, please trust me about its awful prose.

She describes the scene in breathless prose.

...that historian's dryasdust prose desiccates what is actually an exciting period in European history...

...a fuliginous prose style that's not exactly ideal for writing for the mass media...

...the impenetrability of her prose is apparently the basis of her appeal to literary snobs...

His prose is inaccessible to many readers.

...he writes very spare prose, with nary an inessential word to be found...

...the musty prose of writers who use the same expressions over and over...

...a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism...

...believing that poetry need not be as perspicuous as prose, he writes poems that are intentionally ambiguous...

Her prose is full of vitality.

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