Word Meanings - MATTER-OF-FACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

PROLIXLY
In a prolix manner. Dryden.
PROSAIC; PROSAICAL
1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. Cudworth. 2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. Ed. Rev. --
PROLIXIOUS
Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.
MATTER-OF-FACT
Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
TEDIOUS
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome;
PROLIXNESS
Prolixity. Adam Smith.
PROLIXITY
The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." Chaucer. Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.
PROSAICISM
The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. Poe.
PROLIX
pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written
OVERTEDIOUS
Too tedious.