pedestrian

1. 1.

   lacking wit or imagination

   “a pedestrian movie plot”

   Synonymsprosaicprosyearthbound

   Similaruninteresting

Other forms of pedestrian

plural

pedestrians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pedestrian

What does pedestrian mean?

pedestrian means "a person who travels by foot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pedestrian?

pedestrian has 4 syllables: pe-des-tri-an. The stress falls on "des". In IPA it is /pəˈdɛstɹiən/.

What is another word for pedestrian?

Close synonyms include walker, footer, prosaic, prosy, earthbound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pedestrian a common word?

pedestrian is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.