Thursday, June 02, 2005
what's another word for thesaurus?
So, I was IM'ing and I used the term "pragmatic". Then, I thought to myself that perhaps I don't know what that work means. So I looked it up online (of which there are least a dozen good ways).
prag·mat·ic ( P )(prg-mtk) adj.
1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
Hmm, that's not the definition I was looking for, although the subject at had was definitely that.... Oh yeah, "prosaic" is the word, so I looked it up.
pro·sa·ic ( P )(pr-zk) adj.
1. Consisting or characteristic of prose.
Stupid dictionary. So I went to the thesaurus.
unimaginative, actual, banal, blah, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat, garden variety, hackneyed, ho hum, humdrum, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, matter-of-fact, monotonous, mundane, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pablum, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, prosy, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspiring, vanilla, vapid, workaday, yawn, zero.
Yeah, that's closer, but I guess in the case of my IM, the subject at hand was both. It had to do with why I don't bother looking for dates (or why I don't accept offers for dates). I have too many reasons to not date and only one real good one for why I should. But that's where the prose comes in to convince me not to go through with it.
Besides, my Bible says it would still be adultery.
prag·mat·ic ( P )(prg-mtk) adj.
1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
Hmm, that's not the definition I was looking for, although the subject at had was definitely that.... Oh yeah, "prosaic" is the word, so I looked it up.
pro·sa·ic ( P )(pr-zk) adj.
1. Consisting or characteristic of prose.
Stupid dictionary. So I went to the thesaurus.
unimaginative, actual, banal, blah, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, diddly, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat, garden variety, hackneyed, ho hum, humdrum, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, matter-of-fact, monotonous, mundane, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, pablum, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, prosy, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspiring, vanilla, vapid, workaday, yawn, zero.
Yeah, that's closer, but I guess in the case of my IM, the subject at hand was both. It had to do with why I don't bother looking for dates (or why I don't accept offers for dates). I have too many reasons to not date and only one real good one for why I should. But that's where the prose comes in to convince me not to go through with it.
Besides, my Bible says it would still be adultery.
