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Adjective: prosaic  prow'zey-ik or pru'zey-ik
  1. Not fanciful or imaginative
    "a prosaic and unimaginative essay";
    - matter-of-fact
     
  2. Lacking wit or imagination
    "a prosaic movie plot";
    - pedestrian, prosy, earthbound
     
  3. Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
    - commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous [Brit, non-standard], mundane

See also: meh [informal], unexciting, uninspiring, uninteresting, unrhetorical

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