pedestrian
Syllables: pe·des·tri·an/pəˈdɛstɹiən/
pedestrian adjective: of or intended for those who are walking.
Adjective
pedestrian (comparative more pedestrian, superlative most pedestrian)
- Of or intended for those who are walking.
- pedestrian crossing
- pedestrian zone
- Ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional.
- His manner of dress was pedestrian but tidy.
- a pedestrian life
- Synonyms:
- basic, routine, lackluster, middling, average, bog-standard, common, common as bums, common as dirt, common as muck
- Pertaining to ordinary, everyday movements incorporated in postmodern dance.
- The choreographer prefers pedestrian movements.
Noun
pedestrian (plural pedestrians)
- A walker; one who walks or goes on foot, especially as opposed to one who uses a vehicle.
- […] how the troops came marching out for evening exercise under Captain Preston; how pedestrians and street urchins taunted them, shouting "Lobsters," "Bloody-backs," and flinging snow-balls, turnips, […]1912, Ralph Davol, Two Men of Taunton: In the Course of Human Events, 1731-1829, page 214
- An expert or professional walker or runner; one who performs feats of walking or running.
- Synonyms:
- walkist
pedestrian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
pedestrian in Hindi
- somebody walking rather than using a vehicle
- पैदल paidal
pedestrian in Tamil
- பாதசாரி, நடப்போர், கால்நடையாக செல்பவர், மிகச்சாதாரணமான, கற்பனைத்திறன் அற்ற
pedestrian in Urdu
- somebody walking rather than using a vehicle
- پَیدَل paidal
pedestrian in Bengali
- of or intended for pedestrians
- পথচারী pothcari
- somebody walking rather than using a vehicle
- পথচারী pothcari
More languagesFewer languages
- pedestrian in Telugu
- పాదచారి pādacāri
- pedestrian in Malayalam
- കാൽനടക്കാരൻ kālnaṭakkāraṉ
- pedestrian in Kannada
- ಕಾಲುದಾರಿ kāludāri, ಕಾಲ್ನಡೆಗ kālnaḍega, ಪಾದಚಾರಿ pādacāri
- pedestrian in Sanskrit
- पत्ति pattí
- pedestrian in Arabic
- رَاجِل rājil, مَاشٍ māšin, مَارّ mārr
- pedestrian in Malay
- pejalan kaki
- pedestrian in Indonesian
- pejalan kaki, biasa, tidak wah
- pedestrian in Persian
- معمولی ma'muli
- pedestrian in Thai
- คนเดินเท้า, ผู้เดินเท้า
- pedestrian in Vietnamese
- bằng chân, người đi bộ
Examples of pedestrian in a sentence
- The piezoelectric pedestrian tubeways depicted for Shanghai 2121 will provide all-weather pedestrian transportation citywide.2016, Alan Marshall, Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia in 100 Cities:
- Their prose is pedestrian, their ideas weak.2016, Paradox Interactive, Stellaris (video game), scene: Anomaly Event 3086:
Synonyms of pedestrian
- basic
- routine
- lackluster
- middling
- average
- bog-standard
- common
- common as bums
- common as dirt
- common as muck
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- common as pig tracks
- dime a dozen
- everyday
- frequent
- general
- habitual
- nonrare
- par for the course
- plain
- quotidian
- regular
- routinary
- ten a penny
- two a penny
- usual
- workaday
- comme ci comme ça
- crappy
- moderate
- decent
- indifferent
- meh
- mediocre
- mid
- no great shakes
- nothing to write home about
- not worth writing home about
- OK
- okayish
- ordinary
Forms of pedestrian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more pedestrian |
| superlative | most pedestrian |
| Noun | |
| plural | pedestrians |
Origin of pedestrian
From Latin pedester (oblique stem pedestri-) + English -an.
Words formed from pedestrian
- pedestrianly
- pedestrianness
- nonpedestrian
- pedestrianate
- pedestrian bridge
- pedestrian crossing
- pedestrianess
- pedestrian hacker
- pedestrianise
- pedestrian island
- pedestrianism
- pedestrianization
- pedestrianize
- pedestrian lane
- pedestrian precinct
- pedestrian recall
- pedestrian refuge
- pedestrian scramble
- pedestrian slicer
- pedestrian underpass
- pedestrian zone
- pedlock
- pedway
- petextrian
- podestrian
- velocipedestrian
Phrases with pedestrian
Questions about pedestrian
- What does pedestrian mean?
- Pedestrian means of or intended for those who are walking.
- What is pedestrian in Hindi?
- Pedestrian in Hindi is पैदल (paidal). See Pedestrian meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use pedestrian in a sentence?
- The piezoelectric pedestrian tubeways depicted for Shanghai 2121 will provide all-weather pedestrian transportation citywide.
- What part of speech is pedestrian?
- Pedestrian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce pedestrian?
- Pedestrian is pronounced /pəˈdɛstɹiən/.
Words near pedestrian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pedestrian (page history and authors); pedestrian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పాదచారి (Telugu) (page history and authors); पत्ति (Sanskrit) (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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