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pedestrian noun [ pɪˈdɛstrɪən ]

• a person walking rather than travelling in a vehicle.
• "the road is so dangerous pedestrians avoid it"
Similar: walker, person on foot, hiker, rambler, stroller, wayfarer, footslogger, foot traveller,
Opposite: driver,

pedestrian adjective

• lacking inspiration or excitement; dull.
• "disenchantment with their pedestrian lives"
Similar: dull, plodding, boring, tedious, monotonous, uneventful, unremarkable, tiresome, wearisome, uninspired, uncreative, unimaginative, unexciting, uninteresting, lifeless, dry, unvarying, unvaried, repetitive, repetitious, routine, commonplace, average, workaday, ordinary, everyday, unoriginal, derivative, mediocre, run-of-the-mill, flat, prosaic, matter-of-fact, turgid, stodgy, mundane, humdrum, OK, so-so, bog-standard, vanilla, plain vanilla, nothing to write home about, not so hot, not up to much, common or garden, half-pie,
Opposite: inspired, exciting,
Origin: early 18th century: from French pédestre or Latin pedester ‘going on foot’, also ‘written in prose’ + -ian. Early use in English was in the description of writing as ‘prosaic’.


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