Antonyms for prose
proʊzpros·e

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

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

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

   Synonyms:
   prosaic speech, prosaic writing

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1. • Expressive Style
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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. odenoun

   prose is written without metrical structure, instead counting on the natural flow of speech, while an ode's core is composed around metrical structure due to the nature of song.

   any conversation compared to a song, no one would ever speak to someone like they do in an ode.

   Submitted by 12347086 on September 23, 2023  

How to use prose in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov:

   You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

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. Iowa President Barack Obama:

   (S)he’s extraordinarily experienced — and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out — (and) sometimes (that) could make her more cautious, and her campaign more prose than poetry.

5. 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.

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