ossified

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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. (figurative) Inflexible, old-fashioned.

   Synonyms: outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, inflexible, rigid; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable

   • 2020 December 17, Li Jin, quoting Alex Zhu, “The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class”, in Harvard Business Review‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

3. (Ireland, US, slang) Drunk.

   Synonyms: blocked, locked, scuttered; see also Thesaurus:drunk

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

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

   • 2018, Newton Taylor, Acadia‎^[2], →ISBN:

     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.

ossified

1. simple past and past participle of ossify