'Fossilized' definitions:
Definition of 'fossilized'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system" [syn: fossilized, fossilised, ossified]
Definition of 'Fossilized'
From: GCIDE
- Fossilize \Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fossilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Fossilizing.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
- 1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. [1913 Webster]
- Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fossilized'
From: GCIDE
- Fossilized \Fos"sil*ized\, a. Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. [1913 Webster]
- A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fossilized'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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