 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fossilized
adjective: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits,
or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified
bureaucratic system" [syn: {fossilised}, {ossified}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fossilize \Fos"sil*ize\, verb (used with an object) [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.
2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head
Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
Browning.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fossilized \Fos"sil*ized\, adjective
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or
opinions.
A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "fossilized":
Gothic, Victorian, 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, 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, vitrified, weak, withered,
wizened
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