Prosaic vs Puerile - What's the difference?
prosaic | puerile |
Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
(of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
(usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring; humdrum; dull; unimaginative.
Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer : puellile.
Childish; trifling; silly.
* (rfdate) De Quincey:
* 1927 , , page 79:
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As adjectives the difference between prosaic and puerile
is that prosaic is pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose while puerile is .prosaic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
- I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
- His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
- She lived a prosaic life.
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*puerile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
- From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.