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fossilized
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective fossilized has 1 sense
- fossilized(s = adj.all) fossilised, ossified - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
CIDE DICTIONARY
fossilized, a.
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. [1913 Webster]
"A fossilized sample of confused provincialism."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fossilized
Gothic, Victorian, anile, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, classical, crabbed, crusted, crusty, crystallized, debilitated, decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery, feeble, fossil, gerontal, gerontic, granulated, grown old, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, infirm, lapidified, medieval, mid-Victorian, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, of other times, old-world, ossified, palsied, papery-skinned, petrified, ravaged with age, reinforced, rickety, rigidified, run to seed, rusty, sclerotic, senile, set, shaky, shriveled, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, stricken in years, superannuated, timeworn, tottering, tottery, toughened, vitrified, weak, withered, wizened
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