Pious vs Prosaic - What's the difference?
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As adjectives the difference between pious and prosaic is that pious is of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing while prosaic is pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
pious English
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
- Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious .
Usage notes
* Sometimes used pejoratively, in the sense of "mistaken" or "false" piety, as in "pious errors", "pious frauds".
Synonyms
* reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godly
Antonyms
* (of or pertaining to piety) impious, independent, profane
Derived terms
* piously
* piousness
Related terms
* piety
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prosaic English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
(of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
(usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring; humdrum; dull; unimaginative.
- His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
- She lived a prosaic life.
Synonyms
* See also
Antonyms
* poetic
Related terms
* prosaically
* prosaicness
* prose
Anagrams
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