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Fossilized

Fossilized Meaning & Definition
Fossilized Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fossilized?

[adj] set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fossilized: fossilised | inflexible | ossified

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fossilized: 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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Fossilized In Webster's Dictionary

\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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