pedestrian
lacking originality or interest; commonplace
Word origin: From Latin pedester, going on foot.
Pedestrian in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing pedestrian in a sentence.
Critics dismissed the album as pedestrian and forgettable.
Reviewers found the symphony technically flawless but pedestrian, lacking any memorable idea.
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The treaty was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy, yet historians now regard its terms as blank, since they merely postponed the conflicts they claimed to resolve.
Using “pedestrian” well
As an adjective, pedestrian means dull and unimaginative, a sense unrelated to the noun for a person walking. This double meaning is a frequent GRE trap.
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