well-trod

English

Adjective

well-trod (comparative more well-trod, superlative most well-trod)

  1. Synonym of well-trodden.
    • 2022 August 5, Lauren Sams, “How TikTok is taking over your kitchen”, in Australian Financial Review[1]:
      TikTok recipes – or FoodTok, to use the parlance of the people – are a genre unto themselves. Creators post short videos of (usually) simple recipes that take fairly ordinary, well-trod ingredients (feta, tomatoes) and give them new relevance.
    • 2024 December 18, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Disney's taxidermized IP is brighter and livelier in Mufasa: The Lion King”, in AV Club[2]:
      Between songs and chase scenes, the script (by Jeff Nathanson, who wrote Favreau’s Lion King, two Rush Hours, and one of the later, lesser Pirates Of The Caribbeans) follows well-trod paths, briefly stopping for familiar messages about outsiders, suspicion, and finding one’s family.