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 or a bone-like mass).

   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   Synonyms: outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, inflexible, rigid; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable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.

Translations

of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned

Dutch: versteend (nl), vastgeroest (nl) Finnish: kangistunut German: verknöchert (de) Greek: αποστεωμένος (el) (aposteoménos) Romanian: neadaptabil m, anchilozat (ro) m or n, învechit (ro) m or n Russian: закостенелый (ru) m (zakostenelyj) Spanish: anquilosado (es)

Verb

ossified

1. simple past and past participle of ossify