/ pəˈdestriən; NAmE / noun , adjective
■ noun
a person walking in the street and not travelling in a vehicle
—compare motorist
■ adjective
1.
[ only before noun ] used by or for the use of pedestrians ; connected with pedestrians :
pedestrian areas
Pedestrian accidents are down by 5%.
2.
without any imagination or excitement; dull
SYN unimaginative
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WORD ORIGIN
early 18th cent.: from French pédestre or Latin pedester going on foot, also written in prose + -ian . Early use in English was in the description of writing as prosaic .