pedestrianlyadj.
/pᵻˈdɛstrɪənli/, U.S. /pəˈdɛstriənli/ For, or from the point of view of, a pedestrian or pedestrians. In later use, chiefly figurative: in a dull or commonplace manner; from an ordinary or unimaginative perspective.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [adverb]
afootc1275
footback1613
pedestrially1632
pedestrianly1859
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in trite or banal manner
stalely1609
trivially1625
tritely1691
tritically1762
prosaically1765
prosingly1822
commonplacely1854
prosily1874
banally1934
pedestrianly1988
1859 P. Fitzgerald in Househ. Words 19 Feb. 268/2 Opening up the country..not pedestrianly, or statistically, or gastronomically but..theatrically.
1925 F. E. Schelling Elizabethan Playwrights vii. 146 The long-suffering virtues of the wife and the prodigality of her husband, circumstantially and pedestrianly told.
1947 H. E. Read Innoc. Eye ii. i. 74 I would fly to the heights that I could not scale pedestrianly.
1973 G. S. Hawkins Beyond Stonehenge 230 Religiously and pedestrianly it [sc. the moon] is ‘new’ sometime later, on that first evening when the thin crescent is seen.
1988 Daily Tel. 26 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xi/5 Nor was he as pedestrianly plodding as his critics..liked to pretend.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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