[syn: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pedestrian
adj 1: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
[syn: pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound]
n 1: a person who travels by foot [syn: pedestrian, walker,
footer]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an
automobile.