Home › Words › P › prosingprosingprosing means writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, prosing ranks #2,710 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom prose + -ing.adjWriting prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.e.g.“the prosing speeches of the honest divine” — 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and BronounTedious talk or writing.e.g.“He had great pretensions to wisdom […] but he was grievously given to metaphysics, and the prince found his prosings even more ponderous than those of the sage Eben Bonabben.” — 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.prosingly 81% match — prosily; Using prose vs prosing →prosaism 74% match — A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is prosaic. vs prosing →prosaically 68% match — In a prosaic manner; straightforwardly. vs prosing →prosaic 68% match — Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. vs prosing →prosify 66% match — To convert or translate into prose. vs prosing →unprosy 66% match — Not prosy. vs prosing →prosaicness 66% match — The characteristic of being prosaic. vs prosing →prosification 65% match — The process of prosifying. vs prosing →