Meaning of FOSSILIZED
| Pronunciation: | | f'âsul`Izd
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| | Definition: | | [adj] set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system" |
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| | Synonyms: | | fossilised, inflexible, ossified |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fos"sil*ized\, a.
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or
opinions.
A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Gothic, 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, Victorian, vitrified, weak, withered, wizened |
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