ossified
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9.3
- adjective
- /ˈɑːsɪfaɪd/
:
ossificado
- Teachers are left with ossified fragments of ideas that might have helped someone, somewhere, at some time.
- remains ossified
- seem ossified
Examples
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The committee's ossified approach to problem-solving stifles creativity and innovation.
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Their spiritual journey was ossified because they did not think it needed to go anywhere.
Blog text (31) -
In some ways, I think our society and our science have become a little too institutionalized, perhaps even a little ossified.
Academic text (1994) -
Sinofsky seems to be your go-to guy if you want to force through change in an ossified organization.
Blog text (19) -
In The Apartment, it's the rigid, ossified, monumental metropolis, destructive because it doesn't allow us enough movement, spontaneity, and growth.
Blog text (14) -
Many of the policies in the organization are ossified, making it difficult to implement new ideas.
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His ossified views on education prevent any discussion about modern teaching methods.
Synonyms
11
4.7
Not willing to change or accept other ideas
4
7.0
Fixed in an old way and unable to change, especially beliefs or systems
2
9.5
Still holding old beliefs and unwilling to change
1
9.9
Refusing to change beliefs or show regret, even when wrong
Antonyms
How Rigid
Surface Forms
Morphology
ossified = ossify (semi-transparent) = oss + ify + ed
The step from the verb 'ossify' to the adjective 'ossified' is a regular past-participle/adjective formation using '-ed'.
Etymology
Ossified comes from the Latin root oss-, which means 'bone', and it originally meant 'turned to bone'. So when ideas or systems are ossified, they are hard and fixed, like bone, and slow to change.