Adjective: pedestrian
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pedestrian |
| Superlative | most pedestrian |
Sample Sentences
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pedestrian crossing
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pedestrian zone
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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:]
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His manner of dress was pedestrian but tidy.
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a pedestrian life
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England were hugely impressive in the first half in particular, when their supporters inside this magnificent bowl at Stade Velodrome roared their approval as Russia were pressed into submission and made to look pedestrian. [2016 June 11, Phil McNulty, “England 1-1 Russia”, in BBC Sport:]
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Their prose is pedestrian, their ideas weak. Hail them. [2016, Paradox Interactive, Stellaris (video game), scene: Anomaly Event 3086:]
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The choreographer prefers pedestrian movements.
Adjectives inflected like pedestrian
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ped-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
5. Proto-Italic *pets
6. Latin pēs
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-ts
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₁its
10. Proto-Italic *-its
11. Latin -es
12. Latin pedes
13. Latin -ter
14. Latin pedester
15. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
16. Proto-Italic *-nos
17. Proto-Italic *-ānos
18. Latin -ānus
19. Old French -ainder.
20. Middle English -an
21. English -an
22. English pedestrian
23. From Latin pedester (oblique stem pedestri-) + English -an.