Stolid vs Prosaic - What's the difference?
stolid | prosaic |
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
* 1857 , ", verse 2.
* 1898 , ,
* 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
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.
As adjectives the difference between stolid and prosaic
is that stolid is having or revealing little emotion or sensibility while prosaic is pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.stolid
English
Adjective
(er)- Light laughs the breeze
- In her Castle above them —
- Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,
- Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence —
- Ah, what sagacity perished here!
- They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
- With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.
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.