Pedestrian \Pe*des"tri*an\, a.
1. Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian
journey.
[1913 Webster]
2. Lacking in distinction or imaginativeness; ordinary;
commonplace; dull; insipid; prosaic; as, pedestrian prose.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pedestrian \Pe*des"tri*an\, n.
A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif.,
a professional walker or runner.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pedestrian
adj : lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn:
prosaic, prosy, earthbound]
n : a person who travels by foot [syn: walker, footer]
WordNet (r) 2.0
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedestrian":
ambler, ambulant, ambulative, ambulator, ambulatory, arid, artless,
backpacker, banal, banausic, barren, blah, blank, bloodless,
boring, characterless, circuit-riding, cold, colorless, common,
commonplace, dead, dim, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry,
dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated,
expeditionary, fade, flat, foot passenger, foot soldier,
foot traveler, footslogger, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going,
hackneyed, half-assed, heavy, hiker, hitchhiker, ho-hum, hollow,
hoofer, humdrum, inadept, inane, inapt, inattentive, inefficient,
inept, inexcitable, inexpert, infantryman, insipid, itinerant,
itinerary, jaywalker, jejune, journeying, leaden, lifeless,
locomotive, low-spirited, marcher, matter-of-fact, mediocre,
monotone, monotonous, moving, mundane, mundivagant, on foot,
on tour, ordinary, paddlefoot, pale, pallid, passing,
perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine,
peripatetic, pilgrimlike, plain, platitudinous, plodding,
poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, poor, progressing, prosaic,
prosing, prosy, rambler, rambling, run-of-the-mill, skill-less,
slow, solemn, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stock, stodgy,
stroller, strolling, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious,
thoughtless, tiresome, touring, touristic, touristy, trailsman,
tramper, traveling, trekking, trite, truistic, unapt, undeft,
undexterous, undextrous, unembellished, unfacile, unidealistic,
unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, unintelligent,
uninteresting, unlively, unpoetic, unproficient, unromantic,
unskillful, vapid, walker, walking, walkist, wayfaring,
wishy-washy, wooden
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an
automobile.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
earthbound, footer, prosaic, prosy, walker
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