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
   • Writing Style

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1. Salman Rushdie:

   If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

2. John Dryden:

   All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.

3. Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

   To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

4. David Hare:

   The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

5. Mario M Cuomo:

   You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.