Pedestrian
1pedestrian — ⇒PÉDESTRIAN, PEDESTRIAN, subst. masc. A. Personne qui se déplace à pied sur de longues distances ou qui aime voyager à pied. Synon. marcheur, randonneur. Pour la première fois, depuis quinze siècles de randonnées, j engraissais et mon ventre de… …
2pédestrian — ⇒PÉDESTRIAN, PEDESTRIAN, subst. masc. A. Personne qui se déplace à pied sur de longues distances ou qui aime voyager à pied. Synon. marcheur, randonneur. Pour la première fois, depuis quinze siècles de randonnées, j engraissais et mon ventre de… …
3Pedestrian — Pe*des tri*an, a. Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey. [1913 Webster] …
4pedestrian — [adj] everyday, dull banal, banausic, blah*, boring, commonplace, dim, dreary, flat, humdrum*, inane, jejune, mediocre, monotone, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, platitudinous, plodding, prosaic, run of themill*, stodgy, truistic, unimaginative,… …
5pedestrian — [pi des′trē ən] adj. [< L pedester, on foot < pes (gen. pedis), FOOT + IAN] 1. going or done on foot; walking 2. of or for pedestrians [a pedestrian crossing] 3. lacking interest or imagination; prosaic; ordinary and dull: said of a… …
6Pedestrian — Pe*des tri*an, n. A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner. [1913 Webster] …
7pedestrian — I adjective arid, banal, barren, boresome, boring, characterless, cold, colorless, commonplace, dead, deadly, diffuse, drab, drearisome, dreary, dry, dull, flat, graceless, hackneyed, heavy, humorless, inelegant, inferior, insipid, jejune,… …
8pedestrian — (adj.) 1716, prosaic, dull (of writing), from L. pedester (gen. pedestris) plain, prosaic (sense contrasted with equester on horseback ), from pedes one who goes on foot, from pes (gen. pedis) foot (see FOOT (Cf. foot)). Meaning going on foot is… …
9pedestrian — adj *dull, humdrum, dreary, monotonous, stodgy Analogous words: commonplace, platitudinous, truistic (see corresponding nouns at COMMONPLACE): banal, jejune, inane, wishy washy (see INSIPID): *irksome, wearisome, tiresome, boring …
10pedestrian — ► NOUN ▪ a person walking rather than travelling in a vehicle. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ dull; uninspired. DERIVATIVES pedestrianly adverb. ORIGIN from Latin pedester going on foot …
