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pedestral

pedestral is the misspelling of pedestrial.

pedestral is the misspelling of pedestal.

Meaning of pedestrial

Adjective

pedestrial (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the feet or walking; using or for use by the foot or feet.
    • Having now so amply declared unto thee most of the principal things of this thrice-renowned and illustrious city, I will briefly by way of an epitome mention most of the other particulars thereof, and so finally shut up this narration: there are reported to be in Venice and the circumjacent islands...1611, Thomas Coryate, Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c
  2. Unenthusiastic; tepid.
    • But it is also an interesting contribution to the technical literature about Dewey, for it is no pedestrial summary of the views about to be presented in extenso in the text, but a vigorous and enthusiastic exposition and defense of the thesis: "With respect to some specific problems, alternative...1941, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, The Philosophical Review - Volume 50, page 83
  3. Unoriginal and unexciting; pedestrian; tiresome.
    • 'Imperial idol!' 'bent the knee!' damn it, my dear fellow, writing vaudevilles has ruined your style; you can't come down to pedestrial prose.1895, Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy

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Meaning of pedestal

Noun

pedestal (plural pedestals)

  1. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
    • The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022
  2. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.
    • He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
  3. A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
  4. A pillow block; a low housing.
  5. (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
  6. (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.

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Questions about pedestral

What is pedestral the misspelling of?
Pedestral is the misspelling of pedestrial.

Words near pedestral in the dictionary

  1. pedestalizes
  2. pedestalizing
  3. pedestalled
  4. pedestalling
  5. pedestals
  6. pedestral
  7. pedestrial
  8. pedestrially
  9. pedestrian
  10. pedestrian bridge
  11. pedestrian bridges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedestral (page history and authors); pedestrial (page history and authors); pedestal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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