ossified
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ossified
adjective more ossified · most ossified
- Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass). ossified cartilage
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Inflexible, old-fashioned.
Launching a new platform, he said, was like starting a new country: Getting users to move from an established network that had an ossified economy and social classes to a new network requires the possibility of success — the lure of the American Dream.
Similar: outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, inflexible, rigid, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, prehistoric
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Drunk.
"Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]."
Similar: blocked, locked, scuttered, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled
verb
- simple past and past participle of ossify
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adj of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned
| Español | anquilosado |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | verknöchert |
| Ελληνικά | αποστεωμένος aposteoménos |
| Română | neadaptabil, anchilozat, învechit |
| Русский | закостене́лый zakostenélyj |
Talk about this word "ossified." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ossified. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. ossified. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ossified "ossified." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ossified.Cite this
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