ossified en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
ossified cartilage
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(figuratively) Inflexible, old-fashioned.
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.
2020 December 17, Li Jin, quoting Alex Zhu, “The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class”, in Harvard Business Review, →ISSN:
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(Ireland, US, slang) Drunk.
"Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]."
1924 July 14 [1923 August 14], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Sixth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section I, page 265: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.
2018, Newton Taylor, Acadia, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most ossified | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more ossified | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
hyperossified · coossified · underossified · unossified · nonossified
Synonyms
lubed up · out of sight · feeling no pain · cringey · adrip · worse for wear · tuned · inebriate · crocked · inter pocula · have the sun in one's eyes · stinko · bingoed · befuddled · lathered · smashed · out of fashion · overrefreshed · jaked · canned · pickled · parlatic · basic · cobwebbed · blue · mad with it · corned · out of date · dead drunk · three sheets to the wind · loose · stotious · besotted · a sheet in the wind's eye · bladdered · inebriated · whittled · wobbly · primitive · tight · a sheet in the wind · backwards · bottled · clobbered · fuckfaced · fossilized · high as a kite · liquory · strut · blind · outmoded · tanked · mouldy · shicker · beliquored · slizzard · outmoded · tight as a tick · ebriose · soused · how came you so · mabok · groggy · aled up · inebrious · dated · sloppy drunk · bungfu · muggy · blasted · have drink taken · snozzled · tipsy · woozy · fuzzy-minded · anachronistic · cockeyed · defunct · ripped · zonked · schloshed · lubed · blewed · old · cup-shotten · elderly · ginned · temulentive · trashed · monged · rolling · Brahms · unstylish · extinct · cut · dootsie · skunked · plowed · looped · cringe · fresh · overcome · wazzocked · drunk as a piper · fershnickered · scuttered · ploughed · out of one's head · pixilated · cringeworthy · behind the times · passé · twisted · cheugy · high · half polluted · full · gesuip · ossified · untrendy · outdated · sodden · spanceled · outmoded · cunted · old-fashioned · toping · tanked up · stoned · unpopular · shitty · fuddled · lushed · blocked · hooched up · sprung · disguised · unchic · sozzly · disused · slarmied · potshot · rubbered · snockered · inflexible · langered · muddled · legless · wellied · jarred · Oliver Twist · juiced up · floored · old-hat · temulent · nimptopsical · larruped · tilted · wet · razzled · idle · obsolete · elderly · squiffed · desuete · worse for liquor · on the ran tan · in liquor · in one's cups · wazzed · blind drunk · démodé · in the bag · flush · flooey · Adrian Quist · lashed · fou · shedded · scammered · pie-eyed · bibulous · superannuated · stoated · newted · parachronistic · bedrunken · fluted · crapulous · sauced · juiced · backward · drunked up · drunk · superseded · antediluvian · soaken · nappy · dated · obfuscated · gattered · expired · scuttered · in one's altitudes · outdated · muzzy · antediluvial · potted · hosed · tippled · shickered · out of fashion · kaylied · throwed · fuzzy-headed · sozzled · blottoed · bibacious · out of it · cobwebby · maggot · three sheets in the wind · maudlin · Brahms and Liszt · shellacked · fap · liquored up · out of touch · budgy · archaic · off one's tits · blootered · mortalled · raddled · zooted · cup-shot · oldfangled · passé · munted · passé · fried · workless · old · arseholed · lubricated · burlin' · locked · lit · ripe · in the drink · souped-up · hooted · snuffy · well-oiled · elephant's trunk · stewed · plastered · schnockered · soshed · oldfangled · top-heavy · flustered · fuckered up · screwed · unhip · sotted · stinking · spannered · off one's head · old-fashioned · half seas over · unoccupied · rigid · fluthered · faced · out of date · lamped · hoovered · cocked · quisby · ebriated · high as a Georgia pine · elevated · mullered · binned · discontinued · oiled up · sloshed · rinky-dink · blitzed · bollocksed · destroyed · normie · besotten · elephant's · lash · primed · mortal · wrecked · Miss Havishamesque · impaired · tacky · kettled · out of one's box · hoary · unemployed · antique · steamboats · drunken · insobrietous · spiffed · MWI · hazed · gassed · twatfaced · overtaken · zotzed · bosky · venerable · pounded · groggified · kisky · insober · gee-eyed · withered · slammed · old school · all mops and brooms · splashed · puggled · flushed · zoned · spongy · four sheets in the wind · sauced up · loaded · toasted · unfashionable · out of date · langers · hog-whimpering · stonkered · mashed · bevvied · sewed up · messed up · out · Oliver · Mozart and Liszt · uncool · maggoted · swacked · glorious · hammered · fossilized · honkers · blocked · sottish · top-heavy with drink · half cut · ratfaced · medicated · antiquated · bombed · last year · paralytic · oiled · loopy · gished · out of one's face · obliviated · frosted · outworn · inelegant · boozy · ossified · off one's box · polluted · snookered · tired and emotional · bungalowed · wastey · Havishamesque · zorched · outdated · half lit
Translations (10)
nl vastgeroest (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · nl versteend (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · el αποστεωμένος (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · ro neadaptabil (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · ro anchilozat (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · fi kangistunut (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · de verknöchert (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · ro învechit (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · es anquilosado (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned) · ru закостене́лый (of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned)