ossified

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

ossified (comparative more ossified, superlative most ossified)

  1. Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).
    ossified cartilage
  2. (figurative) Inflexible, old-fashioned.
    Synonyms: outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, inflexible, rigid; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable
    • 2020 December 17, Li Jin, quoting Alex Zhu, “The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class”, in Harvard Business Review, →ISSN:
      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.
  3. (Ireland, US, slang) Drunk.
    Synonyms: blocked, locked, scuttered; see also Thesaurus:drunk
    • 2018, Newton Taylor, Acadia, →ISBN:
      At Wanda's house, two nights before the wedding, she, Jenny, and two other girls were doing shots with beer chasers while Tom and I and another guy watched as they all got ossified.

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Verb

ossified

  1. simple past and past participle of ossify
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