Synonyms for prose
proʊzpros·e

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1. prosenoun

   Antonyms:
   verse, poetry

2. prosenoun

   to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way

   Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems.

   Antonyms:
   verse, poetry

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 4 votes

1. prose

   Synonyms:
   prosaic speech, prosaic writing

   Antonyms:
   meter, metrical composition, numbers, poem, poesy, poetry, rime, song, verse

Princeton's WordNet

1. prosenoun

   ordinary writing as distinguished from verse

2. prosenoun

   matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

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1. • Expressive Style
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1. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Poetry often emphasizes the beauty of language and the sound of words. The use of rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language can create a sensory experience that goes beyond mere information or prose. This aesthetic appeal can captivate and engage readers or listeners.

2. Peter Brodie:

   What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

3. Boris Pasternak:

   It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

4. Ernest Hemingway:

   The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

5. Paul Valery:

   ...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.