prosaic

1. (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.Examples: "I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late."

2. (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.Examples: "His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it."; "She lived a prosaic life."; "Our people are the most prosaic in the world, but the most faithful; and with curious reverence we keep up and transmit, from generation to generation, the superstition of what we call the education of a gentleman."Synonyms: humdrum, dull, unimaginative, banal, beat, blah, bland, boringusually