pedestrian
27
6.7
- adjective
- /pəˈdɛstrɪən/
:
poco imaginativo
- The movie received poor reviews for its pedestrian plot and lack of character development.
- pedestrian-friendly
- pedestrian safety
- pedestrian access
You sink into the the peace and the pedestrian sort of pace and cadence that he goes through.
- You sink into the the peace and the pedestrian sort of pace and cadence that he goes through.
- Look, yes, it's slower, yes, it's more pedestrian.
- And sometimes, again, the extremism generates more likes than the pedestrian stuff does.
- I could have overlooked the pedestrian prose the you're making me practice my English girl.
- I think we're going to write this down, otherwise it's going to sound very pedestrian.
- Did you have any more pedestrian tactics like chores or athletics, anything like that?
- That evidently Dusty of his prose is much, much more pedestrian and his vocabulary wasn't as as wide as his translated.
- Hopefully we can we, we've made it much more pedestrian for people to just go and do things instead of being so analytical about the results of what they do.
- It's a very pedestrian, honest reaction to something unethical done immoral.
Examples
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Even something as pedestrian as a teacher's planning book contains only enough space for one year.
Academic text (1993) -
We have speeches from political candidates and leaders which are pedestrian at best.
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I put up pretty pedestrian numbers.
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You know, your version of events is so pedestrian.
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Well, it may have been an eventful afternoon outside the actual Stock Exchange, but it was a rather pedestrian day inside.
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Everything from the extraordinarily complex and profound to the extremely pedestrian and obvious.
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It is derivative and pedestrian.
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Lofty reasons by the filmmakers are given for these long lakes, but there are more pedestrian reasons behind this.
Academic text (2009) -
They've become very sort of pedantic and pedestrian and descriptive.
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There are a couple of pedestrian exits, one on Welton, one on Glenarm.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
16
7.9
Not interesting or lively and often boring
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
8
7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
1
7.1
Not creative or adventurous, often plain and boring
Not interesting and showing little imagination
Boring and not interesting to think about or feel
Antonyms
Compounds
2
3.7
Places where people can walk safely and easily because of wide sidewalks and safe crossings
How Interesting
577
2.0
12
3.5
∞
1.0
27
6.7
721
1.0
87
4.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
The adjective pedestrian meaning 'dull' also comes from the Latin ped 'foot'. Because walking is ordinary and not dramatic, calling something pedestrian says it is plain or not exciting.