pedestrian

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who is walking, especially in a street or area where there are vehicles.

   The driver slowed down to let a pedestrian cross the road.

2. 2
   adj

   Ordinary and dull; lacking imagination.

   The film had a pedestrian plot that surprised no one.

3. 3
   adj

   Intended for or used by people who are walking.

   They built a pedestrian crossing outside the school.

Borrowed from Latin pedester, root pedestri- (from pedes) + -an (suffix forming adjectives).

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