pedestriannoun [ C ]
uk/pəˈdes.tri.ən/us/pəˈdes.tri.ən/B1 a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go:
A few pedestrians sheltered from the rain in doorways.
The death rate for pedestrians hit by cars is unacceptably high.
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Walking and walkers
- bring/call sth/sb to heel idiom
- cavalcade
- gait
- heel
- hike
- hiker
- hoof
- hoof it idiom
- jaywalk
- pace
- parade
- ramble
- sleepwalker
- stretch
- stretch your legs idiom
- stride
- ticker-tape parade
- toddle
- trek
- walker
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pedestrianadjective
uk/pəˈdes.tri.ən/us/pəˈdes.tri.ən/formal disapprovingnot interesting; showing very little imagination:
Her books, with few exceptions, are workmanlike but pedestrian.
His speech was long and pedestrian.
Synonym
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Tedious and uninspiring
- anonymous
- antiseptic
- banal
- be (as) dull as ditchwater idiom
- bland
- boring
- drab
- earthbound
- flat-footed
- lifeless
- middle-aged
- mind-numbing
- monochrome
- monotonous
- mouldy
- tedious
- threadbare
- tired
- tiresome
- trite
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