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Rosier vs Prosier - What's the difference?

rosier | prosier |

As adjectives the difference between rosier and prosier

is that rosier is comparative of rosy while prosier is comparative of prosy.

rosier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (rosy)
    • ----

    rosy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Rose-coloured.
  • *
    • If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
  • Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume.
  • Optimistic.

    • Etymology 2

    From Cockney rhyming slang, "Rosie Lee".

    Alternative forms

    * Rosie (more common spelling, as per the etymology)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang, British) tea
    • I wish a cup of Rosy .
    I fancy a cup of rosy lee.
    ----

    prosier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (prosy)

    • prosy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Unpoetic (of speech or writing); dull and unimaginative.
  • Behaving in a dull way (of a person); boring, tedious.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
    • I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.

    Related terms

    * prose