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- Dictionarypedestrian/pɪˈdɛstrɪən/
noun
- 1. a person walking rather than travelling in a vehicle: "the road is so dangerous pedestrians avoid it"
adjective
- 1. lacking inspiration or excitement; dull: "disenchantment with their pedestrian lives"
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PEDESTRIAN definition: 1. a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go: 2. not interesting; showing…. Learn more.
To be pedestrian was to be drab or dull, as if plodding along on foot rather than speeding on horseback or by coach. Pedestrian is often used to describe a colorless or lifeless writing style, but it can also describe politicians, public tastes, personal qualities, or possessions.
Pedestrian definition: a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.. See examples of PEDESTRIAN used in a sentence.
adjective. formal disapproving us / pəˈdes.tri.ən / uk / pəˈdes.tri.ən / not interesting; showing very little imagination: Her books, with few exceptions, are workmanlike but pedestrian. His speech was long and pedestrian. Synonyms. earthbound. plodding.
A pedestrian is someone traveling by foot. If you're a pedestrian, you will likely get annoyed at the drivers who don't stop so you can cross the street.
n. A person traveling on foot; a walker. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or made for pedestrians: a pedestrian bridge. 2. Going or performed on foot: a pedestrian journey. 3. Undistinguished; ordinary: pedestrian prose. See Synonyms at dull.
A pedestrian is a person who is walking, especially in a town or city, rather than travelling in a vehicle. In Los Angeles a pedestrian is a rare spectacle. More than a third of all pedestrian injuries are to children. Synonyms: walker, foot-traveller, footslogger More Synonyms of pedestrian. 2. adjective.
Definition of pedestrian noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
PEDESTRIAN definition: 1. a person who is walking and not travelling in a vehicle: 2. ordinary or not interesting: . Learn more.
Going or done on foot; walking.
