trodden

Speech parts

1. trodden - Adjective

2. trodden - Verb

Derived from tread

Meaning

of Tread

p. p. of Tread.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

march step flat worn walk pace beaten crush flattened squash stride flatten trample compressed step on
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Antonyms

improve broken broad rough loose irregular
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Phrases with the word

much trodden down-trodden trodden flat trodden down

Examples

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Edmund Burke

As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. Oliver Goldsmith

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? Harriet Beecher Stowe

A trodden path bears no grass. English Proverb

He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on. German Proverb

Green is the grass of the least trodden field. Scottish Gaelic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

troctolite troctolitic trod trodden down trodden flat trode