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. figurativelyInflexible, 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

   Synonyms: outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, inflexible, rigid, anachronistic, antediluvial

3. IrelandUSslangDrunk.

   "Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]."

   1924 July 28 [1923 August 28], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Sixth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section I, page 265

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   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

   Synonyms: blocked, locked, scuttered, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of ossify