arid authentic barren bona fide candid card-carrying common commonplace dinkum down-to-earth dry dull earthbound earthy flat following the letter genuine good hard hard-boiled hardheaded honest honest-to-God humdrum inartificial infecund infertile insipid lawful legitimate lifelike literal matter-of-fact mundane natural naturalistic ordinary original pedestrian plain poetryless positivistic practical practical-minded pragmatic prosaic prosing prosy pure rational real realist realistic reasonable rightful sane scientific scientistic secular sensible simon-pure simple sincere sober sober-minded sound sound-thinking staid sterling stolid straight-thinking stuffy sure-enough tiresome true to life true to nature true to reality unadulterated unaffected unassumed unassuming uncolored unconcocted uncopied uncounterfeited undisguised undisguising undistorted unembellished unexaggerated unfabricated unfanciful unfeigned unfeigning unfictitious unflattering unideal unidealistic unimaginative unimagined unimitated unimpassioned uninspired uninvented uninventive unoriginal unpoetic unpretended unpretending unqualified unromanticized unsentimental unsimulated unspecious unsynthetic unvarnished vapid verbal verbatim veridical verisimilar word-for-word worldly