ossified
adj1
Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
- ossified cartilage
2
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:
- "Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]."1924 July 23 [1923 August 23], 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:
- Derived terms
- coossified, hyperossified, nonossified, underossified, unossified