prosaic (adj.)

• actual
• arid
• ascetic
• austere
• bald
• banal
• banausic
• bare
• barren
• bland
• boring
• businesslike
• candid
• characterless
• chaste
• classic
• classical
• cliched
• commercial
• common
• commonplace
• dead
• direct
• drab
• dry
• dull
• earthbound
• everyday
• factual
• flat
• frank
• garden
• hackneyed
• ho-hum
• homely
• homespun
• humdrum
• infertile
• insipid
• irksome
• jejune
• lackluster
• lean
• lifeless
• literal
• lowly
• lusterless
• materialistic
• matter-of-fact
• mediocre
• moneymaking
• monotonous
• mouldy
• mundane
• natural
• neat
• nondescript
• open
• ordinary
• overdone
• pedestrian
• plain
• practicable
• practical
• prose
• prosy
• pure
• realistic
• routine
• run-of-the-mill
• rustic
• severe
• simple
• sober
• spare
• staid
• stale
• stark
• stereotyped
• stock
• stolid
• straightforward
• stuffy
• tedious
• threadbare
• tired
• tiresome
• trite
• unadorned
• unaffected
• undistinguished
• unembellished
• uneventful
• unexceptional
• unimaginative
• unimpassioned
• uninspired
• uninteresting
• uninventive
• unoriginal
• unromantic
• unvarnished
• utilitarian
• vapid
• workaday
• working