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Definition: PROSING |
PROSINGNoun1. Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Prose |
Date "PROSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Diffuseness | Adjective: diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. |
Dullness | Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable". |
Weariness | Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prosing | 26 |
prosing karaoke | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PROSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | скучно говорене, скучно писане. (various references) | ||||
German | erzählend (narrating, narrative, narratively, recounting). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | osingpray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"PROSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Prasina, Prasong, presin, presling, prising, procing, Promin, proosian, proosians, Prosen, Prosig, prosunt, prowing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sporing. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: gipons, girons, grison, groins, orpins, pingos, poring, posing, prions, prison, prongs, roping, rosing, signor, soring, spinor, spring. | |
-2 letters: gipon, girns, giron, giros, gorps, grins, grips, groin, irons, noirs, noris, oping, opsin, ornis, orpin, pingo, pings, pions, pirns, pirog, pongs, porns, prigs, prion, progs, prong, rings, rosin, sprig. | |
-3 letters: gins, gips, girn, giro, gorp. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ingroups, perigons, reposing, spongier, spooring, sporting. | |
+2 letters: droppings, groupings, offspring, pastoring, peignoirs, posturing, prisoning, progenies, progestin, prognosis, promising, proposing, purposing, riposting, scrooping, sporangia, springbok, sprouting, stropping, uprousing, upsoaring, vaporings. | |
+3 letters: angiosperm, aphorising, comprising, conspiring, disporting, disproving, fingerpost, incorpsing, inpourings, offsprings, oppressing, perigynous, polarising, porringers, posturings, prescoring, preshowing, presoaking, presorting, processing, professing, progestins, prognosing, prognostic, prolapsing, prosecting, prospering, protesting, purgations, reexposing, reimposing, reopenings, reopposing, repositing, responding, respotting, saprogenic, sponsoring, sporangial, sporangium, sporogenic, sporogonia, sporogonic, sportingly, springboks, springwood, stoppering, supporting, vaporising, worshiping. | |
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