to calcify

Examples

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• On the contrary, the historical dimension of the novel conveys the idea of a court calcified by routine and habit.

  Academic text (2001)

• What we seem to be fighting then is the calcifying tendencies of partisanship.

  Blog text (33)

• If that stops, the whole thing starts to calcify in ways that are very hard to reverse.

  Tim Ferriss

• Never let your beliefs calcify into dogma.

• A sport I had thought to be extreme had calcified into a middle-aged pastime.

  Academic text (2011)

• It also has another effect: by casting each side as fundamentally anti-, it calcifies attitudes between the two sides on other issues that involve value but that are otherwise irrelevant to the specific issue already under debate.

  Blog text (33)

• If I ever get so intellectually calcified and unable to respond substantively to material arguments, I hope I have sufficient self-respect to give up writing commentary and find some other means of entertaining myself.

  Blog text (19)

• For too long, discussions in this area have calcified into stereotyped thinking frames and hackneyed platitudes that offer little in the way of a meaningful exploration of issues related to politics, ideology, and best practices in school psychology.

  Academic text (1992)

• If you don't challenge your views regularly, they may calcify and make you resistant to new ideas.

• It's important to adapt and grow; otherwise, your thoughts might calcify over time.

Synonyms

O

to ossify

vsto calcify

1 9.5

Become fixed or make something fixed and refuse to change

is the process of stopping change and losing adaptability over time

F

to fossilize

vsto calcify

• Formal

1 6.8

Become fixed and unable to change, often about ideas or systems

is becoming rigid through halted adaptation rather than age alone

P

to petrify

vsto calcify

1 6.7

To make something unable to change by keeping it in old ways

is becoming rigid by stopping change and adaptability

S

to sclerose

vsto calcify

• Formal

9.5

To become fixed and not open to new ideas, often in organizations

is general loss of flexibility in attitudes and structures

Antonyms

E

to evolve

591 4.0

To change or develop slowly over time, often becoming more advanced

A

to adapt

150 3.0

To change your behaviour or ideas to deal with new situations

How Rigid

to ossify

1 9.5

to harden

27 2.6

to calcify

• Formal

1 8.4

to stabilize

• US

75 4.3

to adapt

150 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology