pedestrian

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Definition

lacking wit or imagination

More commonly, pedestrian is used as a noun to refer to a person who is traveling by walking.

• a pedestrian movie plot

• The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited.
  Mary Shelley  --  Frankenstein
pedestrian = walking
• It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
  Charles Dickens  --  A Christmas Carol

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