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PEDESTRIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who travels by foot
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pedestrian" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedestrian"):
wayfarer (a pedestrian who walks from place to place)
waddler (someone who walks with a waddling gait)
plodder; slogger; trudger (someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner)
swaggerer (someone who walks in an arrogant manner)
stumbler; tripper (a walker or runner who trips and almost falls)
strider (a person who walks rapidly with long steps)
stamper; stomper; tramper; trampler (someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground)
stalker (someone who walks with long stiff strides)
reeler; staggerer; totterer (someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall)
shuffler (someone who walks without raising the feet)
ambler; saunterer; stroller (someone who walks at a leisurely pace)
rambler (a person who takes long walks in the country)
peripatetic (a person who walks from place to place)
passer; passer-by; passerby (a person who passes by casually or by chance)
nondriver (a person who is not a driver)
marcher; parader (walks with regular or stately step)
jaywalker (a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally)
hobbler; limper (someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait)
hiker; tramp; tramper (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking wit or imagination
Example:
a pedestrian movie plot
Synonyms:
earthbound; pedestrian; prosaic; prosy
Classified under:
Similar:
uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)
Context examples:
It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A draw! shrieked every one, and the crowd in an instant dispersed in every direction, the pedestrians running to get a good lead upon the London road, and the Corinthians in search of their horses and carriages.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A belated gig was coming at full gallop down the road which led from the south, and a few pedestrians were still trailing up from Crawley, but nowhere was there a sign of the missing man.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Strings of pedestrians, most of them so weary and dust-covered that it was evident that they had walked the thirty miles from London during the night, were plodding along by the sides of the road or trailing over the long mottled slopes of the moorland.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
