Pedestrian

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pedestrian \Pe*des"tri*an\, n.
     A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif.,
     a professional walker or runner.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pedestrian
       adj : lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn:
             {prosaic}, {prosy}, {earthbound}]
       n : a person who travels by foot [syn: {walker}, {footer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PEDESTRIAN, n.  The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an
  automobile.