PEDESTRIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pedestrian mean? 

• PEDESTRIAN (noun)
  The noun PEDESTRIAN has 1 sense:

1. a person who travels by foot

  Familiarity information: PEDESTRIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• PEDESTRIAN (adjective)
  The adjective PEDESTRIAN has 1 sense:

1. lacking wit or imagination

  Familiarity information: PEDESTRIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDESTRIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who travels by foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

footer; pedestrian; walker

Hypernyms ("pedestrian" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedestrian"):

shuffler (someone who walks without raising the feet)

wayfarer (a pedestrian who walks from place to place)

waddler (someone who walks with a waddling gait)

plodder; slogger; trudger (someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner)

swaggerer (someone who walks in an arrogant manner)

stumbler; tripper (a walker or runner who trips and almost falls)

strider (a person who walks rapidly with long steps)

stamper; stomper; tramper; trampler (someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground)

stalker (someone who walks with long stiff strides)

reeler; staggerer; totterer (someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall)

hiker; tramp; tramper (a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure))

ambler; saunterer; stroller (someone who walks at a leisurely pace)

rambler (a person who takes long walks in the country)

peripatetic (a person who walks from place to place)

passer; passer-by; passerby (a person who passes by casually or by chance)

nondriver (a person who is not a driver)

marcher; parader (walks with regular or stately step)

jaywalker (a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally)

hobbler; limper (someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait)

• PEDESTRIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking wit or imagination

Synonyms:

earthbound; pedestrian; prosaic; prosy

Context example:

a pedestrian movie plot

Similar:

uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)

 Context examples 

Accidents on streets, roads, and highways involving drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or vehicles.

(Automobile Accident, NCI Thesaurus)

A self-driving car could get an early warning that a pedestrian is about to step into the street by monitoring body language.

(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Share the road with bicycles and motorcycles, and watch for pedestrians.

(Motor Vehicle Safety, NIH)

Then, off the huge crowd started, horsemen, vehicles, and pedestrians, rolling slowly over the broad face of the moorland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The moment he read it, he packed his knapsack, bade adieu to his fellow pedestrians, and was off to keep his promise, with a heart full of joy and sorrow, hope and suspense.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One such project focuses on developing encoded roads, whereby different amounts of metallic material are aggregated beneath roads, pavements, and pedestrian crossings, among other areas of the city, so that a code can be generated to identify and link specific working instructions with PMDs (electric scooters) and their users.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

For weeks it had been a very dull and sombre world; but now, with nearly all debts paid, three dollars jingling in his pocket, and in his mind the consciousness of success, the sun shone bright and warm, and even a rain-squall that soaked unprepared pedestrians seemed a merry happening to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A line of electric broughams discharged their little cargoes of white-bearded professors, while the dark stream of humbler pedestrians, who crowded through the arched door-way, showed that the audience would be popular as well as scientific.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)