pedestrian
puh-DES-tree-unadjMeaning ordinary and dull; lacking imagination
Memory hook PED = FOOT: plods along, never flies. Jonah’s story plods along like a tired walker, step, step, step, with a snail for company. Writing that never takes flight is pedestrian.
The band’s second album was pedestrian compared with its brilliant first one.
In context The menu promised adventure, but the food was pedestrian: plain noodles, plain chicken and a salad anyone could make at home.
Similar dull, uninspired, ordinary, mediocre
Opposite inspired, exciting, original
From Latin pedester, “on foot,” from pes, foot: writing that plods along on foot, never taking flight, is pedestrian.