Clues for the word "PROSE"
We've had 122 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 247 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on May 22, 2026.
Definition of prose
- n. - The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
- n. - Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
- n. - A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
- a. - Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
- a. - Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
- v. t. - To write in prose.
- v. t. - To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
- v. i. - To write prose.
Referring Clues
- Text
- It's unmetered
- Simple writing
- Plain speaking
- "Purple" writing
- Nonpoetic writing
- Plain writing
- Ordinary writing
- Novel or essay
- Writing
- An essayist's work is in it
- Plain English
- Novel content
- Everyday speech
- Purple stuff, perhaps
- Regular writing
- Verse's converse
- Ordinary language form
- Genre of novels and essays
- It may be purple
- Verse inverse?
- Essay, say
- It's "architecture, not interior decoration": Hemingway
- Unlike most of Shakespeare
- Ordinary language
- It's no verse
- Standard paragraphs
- Plain talk
- Ordinary talk
- London lines
- Not poetry
- Without rhyme, but with reason
- Form of writing
- Purple ___ (flowery writing)
- Writing lacking meter
- Everyday language
- Twain lines
- Rhyme-free writing
- Matter-of-fact writing
- Plain talk
- Ordinary lines
- Most writing
- Everyday writing
- Poetry's opposite
- Poetry's antithesis
- Much writing
- Non-verse writing
- Fiction, e.g.
- Fiction, e.g.
- Novel language?
- Best seller, usually
- Best-seller,usually
- Bestseller usually
- Conversational literature
- Novel writing, e.g.
- Commonplace writing
- The written word
- Typical writing
- It couldn't be verse
- Writing form
- Literature
- Plain-old paragraph
- Poetry's counterpart
- Novelist's output
- Poetry
- Writing style
- "Always be a poet, even in ___": Baudelaire
- Essay makeup
- Narrative writing
- Novel writing
- Language of a novel
- Novel text
- Written language
- Poser set in unpoetical language
- Writing about ropes
- Beastie Boys "Flowin' ___"
- Literary genre
- Non-verse
- Language test went up by a penny
- Writings not in verse
- In ordinary terms, a teasing poser
- In ordinary terms, right in position
- Quietly stood up for plain English
- Quietly increased one's ordinary writing
- Writing in favour of the Kentish area
- It's written in a professional way
- Novel material
- Essay writing, e.g.
- Famed D.C. bookstore, Politics & ___
- It's polished at one's desk
- Standard speaking
- Essayist's writing
- Some writing
- Novel makeup
- Flowery writing
- Writing in English by experts
- Unmetered writing
- Non-poetry
- Writing that isn't poetry
- Experts on English writing
- It isn't poetry
- Wolfe's forte
- Verse alternative
- Writing in biographies
- It's not poetry
- Plain text
- Priest stood up to deliver dull discourse
- It's not good if it's purple
- Novel filler
- Not verse
- Ordinary speech
- There's nothing poetic about tangled ropes
- In ordinary language, right in position
- Nonverse writing
- Counterpart of poetry
- "Purple" stuff
- Essay text
- Writing that's not poetic
- Writing without verse
- Articles are written in this
- Conventional writing
- Writings
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - May 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 13, 2026
- Daily American - March 15, 2026
- LA Times - January 10, 2026
- Daily American - January 02, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 15, 2025
- New York Times - December 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 25, 2025
- LA Times - October 14, 2025
- New York Times - April 07, 2025
- New York Times - March 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 25, 2025
- USA Today - February 19, 2025
- LA Times - February 18, 2025
- Daily American - February 08, 2025
- Daily American - January 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 11, 2024
- LA Times - October 21, 2024
- LA Times - October 12, 2024
- LA Times - September 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2024
- Daily American - August 30, 2024
- Daily American - July 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 16, 2024
- Mirror Mini - July 11, 2024
- LA Times - June 22, 2024
- USA Today - June 20, 2024
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