Synonyms of ossified

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adjective

as in stubborn

sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

the company's ossified management team failed to see the technological revolution that was sweeping their own industry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stubborn
• adamant
• hardened
• steadfast
• intransigent
• obstinate
• obdurate
• inflexible
• immovable
• unbending
• bullheaded
• adamantine
• implacable
• opinionated
• mulish
• wilful
• unyielding
• obsessive
• willful
• unrelenting
• headstrong
• uncompromising
• pertinacious
• hardheaded
• pat
• hard
• dogged
• perverse
• pigheaded
• determined
• strict
• persistent
• hidebound
• stiff-necked
• self-willed
• hard-nosed
• rigid
• self-opinionated
• inconvincible
• iron
• deaf to reason
• resolved
• relentless
• wrongheaded
• inexorable
• stern
• wayward
• intractable
• tenacious
• severe
• recalcitrant
• defiant
• refractory
• unflinching
• hard-line
• cantankerous
• narrow-minded
• unmanageable
• firm
• uncooperative
• contumacious
• insubordinate
• hard-shell
• disobedient
• ungovernable
• anal-retentive
• insurgent
• mutinous
• hard-shelled
• single-minded
• unruly
• invincible
• indomitable
• contrary
• cussed
• set
• stouthearted
• confirmed
• unconquerable
• bloody-minded
• inveterate
• unregenerate
• hell-bent
• demanding
• froward
• exacting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pliant
• pliable
• acquiescent
• flexible
• compliant
• amenable
• complying
• yielding
• agreeable
• obedient
• docile
• tractable
• submissive
• receptive
• accepting
• responsive
• willing
• reasonable
• manageable
• temperate
• relenting
• placable
• subservient
• slavish
• governable
• persuadable

ossified

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verb

past tense of ossify

as in calcified

Synonyms & Similar Words

• calcified
• crystallized
• rigidified
• petrified
• crystalized
• thickened
• coagulated
• stiffened
• clotted
• gelled
• gelatinized
• jellied
• jelled
• annealed
• encrusted
• tempered
• case-hardened
• incrusted
• caked
• callused
• gelated
• congealed
• indurated
• solidified
• hardened
• froze
• concreted
• firmed (up)
• set

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liquefied
• softened
• fused
• liquified
• dissolved
• melted
• thawed
• smelted
• fluxed
• deliquesced
• unfroze