Nouns (2)
walker, footer
n. a person who travels by foot
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (2)
prosaic, prosy
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
Fuzzynyms (45)
fair, middling, average, mediocre
adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
commonplace, trivial, banal
adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
cordial, genial, affable, amiable
adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"
conventional
adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
conventional, ceremonious
adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
accustomed
adj. (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"
accepted, received
adj. widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist
familiar, unstudied
adj. "lectured in a familiar style"
knockabout, casual, everyday
adj. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
normal, average
adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"
routine, usual, everyday, mundane, quotidian, workaday, unremarkable
adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
ordinary, common, familiar
adj. commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
routine, stock, ready-made, cliched
adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
friendly
adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous
adj. not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
ordinary
adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
Synonyms (20)
deadening, boring, dreary, tedious, ho-hum, irksome, tiresome, wearisome
adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
dull, drab, stodgy, unimaginative
adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
insipid, jejune, vapid
adj. lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
narcotic, soporific, soporiferous
adj. inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech"
ponderous
adj. labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"
putdownable
adj. (of a book) so poorly written and unentertaining as to be easily put down
Antonyms (0)
pedestrian
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