[patton]

hmmmm. I always thought "prosaic" was similar to "laconic", which dosn't necessaraly imply lack of wit at all.

[xsmommy]

prosaic definitely connotes dull and boring, flat.

[xsmommy]

Synonyms: 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