ossified

Adjective

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. (figuratively) Inflexible, 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   outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, inflexible, rigid, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated

3. (Ireland, US, slang) Drunk.
   • "Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-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
   • 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, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye