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adjective

as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest a TV detective show filled with pedestrian plots stolen from older and better series

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Recent Examples of pedestrian
Noun
The driver who struck the pedestrian remained at the scene and cooperated with police. Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2025 In northern Kentucky and parts of southern West Virginia, ice accumulation was forecast to surpass a quarter-inch, which could create dangerous conditions for drivers and pedestrians and could increase the risk of power failures. Nazaneen Ghaffar, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Almost exactly 24 hours after the 2016 CZ31 event, at 7:37 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 30, the much larger 2013 CU83 asteroid, this one as big as 1,050 feet across, will swing by Earth at a relatively pedestrian 13,100 miles per hour, at over 3 million miles away. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2022 The eRV2 has a range of just 108 miles, which is even less than the e-RV’s rather pedestrian 125-mile range. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for pedestrian 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedestrian
Noun
  • As a result, his home needs a new ramp to accommodate his need for a walker.
    David Chiu, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • If your weekly dog walker is especially good with your excitable fur-baby, consider giving additional Christmas cheer.
    Linley Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Covering the entertainment business is never boring, and 2025 is already shaping up to be another banger as business models that have been around for decades continue to evolve, erode and unravel.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • News to Know Disney buys Fubo On its face, the move might sound like a boring press release.
    Chris Branch, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But Williams and the Bears offense, which have struggled all season with slow starts, certainly didn’t look cool and collected prior to the fourth quarter.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Two juveniles darted across a branch, and the younger female began to hunt flying insects, moving in a slow crouch.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • So ridiculous the referee initially had trouble believing that anyone could be so reckless & stupid.
    The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • And there was no such thing ever as a bad decision or a stupid question.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Adams may have thought Pierce owed him something for vouching for him, but Pierce was tiring of the pouting and target requests.
    Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Those two references, of course to the surprise endings of Citizen Kane and The Sixth Sense (sorry if that just ruined them for you), were meant as a jaded eye roll to a tiring complaint.
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • This is a technocratic view of art’s purpose, one that reduces art to a type of soma for late capitalism’s weary workers, Apple’s dream employees on an eighteen-hour shift and counting.
    Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
  • But rather than sporting a big smile and radiating festive cheer, Ferrell looked hilariously weary and unshaven, with an unlit cigarette dangling between his scowling lips.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • For optimal baking, open the containers to check their aroma and if the smell is dull throw it away.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Announcer Kevin Frazier, who missed no chance to remind you that this was Hollywood’s biggest party — as opposed, by implication, to the Oscars and Emmys, chained to their dull academies — chimed in with factoids about presenters and winners, like a wedding DJ working the crowd.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • On the day of the shooting, Nixon-Clark was 16 years and 9 months old, just shy of reaching legal status as an adult.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Jan. 2025
  • That policy is so old that Chapman remembers it from his rookie year in the NYPD as a young patrolman in East Harlem in 1968.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025

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“Pedestrian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedestrian. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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