Pedantic vs. Pedestrian — What's the Difference?

Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous

A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term usually refers to someone walking on a road or pavement, but this was not the case historically.The meaning of pedestrian is displayed with the morphemes ped- ('foot') and -ian ('characteristic of').

Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules

A person traveling on foot; a walker.

Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.

Of, relating to, or made for pedestrians

Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

Going or performed on foot

Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.

Undistinguished; ordinary

Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

(not comparable) Of or intended for those who are walking.

Ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional.

(dance) Pertaining to ordinary, everyday movements incorporated in postmodern dance.

A walker; one who walks or goes on foot, especially as opposed to one who uses a vehicle.

(dated) An expert or professional walker or runner; one who performs feats of walking or running.

Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.

Lacking in distinction or imaginativeness; ordinary; commonplace; dull; insipid; prosaic; as, pedestrian prose.

A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

A person who travels by foot

Lacking wit or imagination;