Antonyms 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

   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. Unknown:

   A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

3. 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.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.

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