ossified
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Adjective
ossified (comparative more ossified, superlative most ossified)
- Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).
- ossified cartilage
- (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- Synonyms: outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, inflexible, rigid; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable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.
- (Ireland, US, slang) Drunk.
- Synonyms: blocked, locked, scuttered; see also Thesaurus:drunk
Translations
of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned
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