Need another word that means the same as “pedestrian”? Find 27 synonyms and 30 related words for “pedestrian” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Pedestrian” are: footer, walker, person on foot, hiker, rambler, stroller, wayfarer, footslogger, earthbound, prosaic, prosy, dull, plodding, boring, tedious, monotonous, uneventful, unremarkable, tiresome, wearisome, uninspired, uncreative, unimaginative, unexciting, uninteresting, lifeless, dry
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “pedestrian” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| footer | The height or length of something in feet used only in combinations footer nou a person who travels by foot. He hammered a low left footer past the keeper. |
| footslogger | Fights on foot with small arms. |
| hiker | A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure. He was a hiker of taxes. |
| person on foot | A human being. |
| rambler | A person who walks in the countryside for pleasure. A ramblers club. |
| stroller | A person taking a leisurely walk. A little stroller taps on the window and cups his hands in a begging gesture. |
| walker | New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952. He was a keen walker. |
| wayfarer | A person who travels on foot. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “pedestrian” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| boring | Not interesting; tedious. I ve got a boring job in an office. |
| dry | Of noodles not served in a soup but in a sauce or with dry ingredients. Cream conditioners for dry hair. |
| dull | (of pain) indistinctly felt; not acute. His face glowed in the dull lamplight. |
| earthbound | Limited to material existence as distinct from a spiritual or heavenly one. An earthbound spaceship. |
| lifeless | Lacking animation or excitement or activity. A lifeless body. |
| monotonous | (of a sound or utterance) lacking in variation in tone or pitch. The statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity. |
| plodding | Slow and laborious. Plodding methodical Ralph Bellamy. |
| prosaic | Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement. The masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day to day concerns. |
| prosy | Lacking wit or imagination. He junked most of the prosy script his handlers had written for him. |
| tedious | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. Tedious days on the train. |
| tiresome | Causing one to feel bored or annoyed. The tiresome chirping of a cricket. |
| uncreative | Not having or involving imagination or original ideas. Repetitive and uncreative work. |
| uneventful | Marked by no noteworthy or significant events. A place where dull people lead uneventful lives. |
| unexciting | Not exciting; dull. An unexciting novel. |
| unimaginative | Dealing only with concrete facts. Even his profanity was unimaginative. |
| uninspired | Lacking in imagination or originality. Uninspired writing. |
| uninteresting | Arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement. A very uninteresting account of her trip. |
| unremarkable | Not particularly interesting or surprising. His early childhood was unremarkable. |
| wearisome | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. They have schedules and inventories that tell them in wearisome detail what they should look for. |
| asphalt | Cover with tar or asphalt. Asphalt the driveway. |
| avenue | A wide street or thoroughfare. An avenue of limes. |
| boulevard | A wide street in a town or city, typically one lined with trees. Sunset Boulevard. |
| crisscross | Marked with crossing lines. Wrinkles crisscrossed her face. |
| cross | Travel across or pass over. Mendel tried crossbreeding. |
| crossing | The action of crossing something. The cathedral has a lantern tower over the crossing. |
| crossover | A point or place of crossing from one side to the other. A jazz classical crossover album. |
| crossroad | A junction where one street or road crosses another. |
| crosswalk | A marked part of a road where pedestrians have right of way to cross; a pedestrian crossing. |
| delineation | The action of describing or portraying something precisely. The eventual delineation of the border between the two states. |
| drawbridge | A bridge, especially one over a castle’s moat, which is hinged at one end so that it may be raised to prevent people crossing or to allow vessels to pass under it. There was a rattle of chains as the drawbridge was lowered. |
| driveway | A road leading up to a private house. One of the suspects backed a vehicle into the driveway. |
| fordable | Shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle. The stream was fordable. |
| intersect | Meet at a point. The area is intersected only by minor roads. |
| intersection | The set of elements common to two or more sets. The intersection of a plane and a cone. |
| jaywalk | Cross the road at a red light. You jaywalked across a busy four lane street. |
| junction | The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made. The junction of two roundels produces a triangular space. |
| lamppost | A metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight. |
| overlap | A part or amount which overlaps. There are many overlaps between the approaches. |
| overpass | Bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels. Did not its sublimity overpass a little the bounds of the ridiculous. |
| pavement | The hard surface of a road or street. He fell and hit his head on the pavement. |
| road | A railroad. A road accident. |
| roadway | The part of a bridge or railway used by traffic. |
| route | Send via a specific route. All lines of communication were routed through London. |
| sidewalk | Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway. |
| skyway | A covered overhead walkway between buildings. Skyways from 18 000 to 40 000 feet resemble a highway system. |
| street | People living or working on the same street. London street style. |
| walk | Walk at a pace. There are picnic places and waymarked walks. |
| walker | A shoe designed for comfortable walking. A fell walker. |
| walkway | A path set aside for walking. |
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