adjective
- Not fanciful or imaginative.
- usage: "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
- synonyms: matter-of-fact
- Lacking wit or imagination.
- usage: "a pedestrian movie plot"
- synonyms: pedestrian, prosy, earthbound
- Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.
- usage: "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
- synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous
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