fossilized

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fos=sil=ized

CIDE DICTIONARY

fossilized, a. 

 Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.  [1913 Webster]
"A fossilized sample of confused provincialism."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

fossilized

Gothic, Victorian, anile, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, classical, crabbed, crusted, crusty, crystallized, debilitated, decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery, feeble, fossil, gerontal, gerontic, granulated, grown old, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, infirm, lapidified, medieval, mid-Victorian, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, of other times, old-world, ossified, palsied, papery-skinned, petrified, ravaged with age, reinforced, rickety, rigidified, run to seed, rusty, sclerotic, senile, set, shaky, shriveled, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, stricken in years, superannuated, timeworn, tottering, tottery, toughened, vitrified, weak, withered, wizened