单词 | pedestrianly |
释义 | pedestrianlyadj. For, or from the point of view of, a pedestrian or pedestrians. In later use, chiefly figurative: in a dull or commonplace manner; from an ordinary or unimaginative perspective. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [adverb] afootc1275 footback1613 pedestrially1632 pedestrianly1859 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in trite or banal manner stalely1609 trivially1625 tritely1691 tritically1762 prosaically1765 prosingly1822 commonplacely1854 prosily1874 banally1934 pedestrianly1988 1859 P. Fitzgerald in Househ. Words 19 Feb. 268/2 Opening up the country..not pedestrianly, or statistically, or gastronomically but..theatrically. 1925 F. E. Schelling Elizabethan Playwrights vii. 146 The long-suffering virtues of the wife and the prodigality of her husband, circumstantially and pedestrianly told. 1947 H. E. Read Innoc. Eye ii. i. 74 I would fly to the heights that I could not scale pedestrianly. 1973 G. S. Hawkins Beyond Stonehenge 230 Religiously and pedestrianly it [sc. the moon] is ‘new’ sometime later, on that first evening when the thin crescent is seen. 1988 Daily Tel. 26 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xi/5 Nor was he as pedestrianly plodding as his critics..liked to pretend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1859 |
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