Ossified
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ossified is an adjective meaning Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
Meaning
Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
More Meanings
- (figurative) Inflexible, old-fashioned.
- (Ireland, US, slang) Drunk.
- simple past and past participle of ossify
Example Sentences
ossified cartilage
"Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]."
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.
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.
Synonyms for ossified
Depending on context, synonyms include outdated, outmoded, inflexible, rigid, anachronistic, antediluvial.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fossilized, hard, inflexible, rigid, bureaucratic, bony.
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