As an adjective ossified
is of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned.
As a verb ossified
is (ossify).
As a noun pariah is
an outcast.
ossified
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned.
Synonyms
*deep-seated
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*established
*fixed
*hard-and-fast
*inflexible
*ingrained
*old-fashioned
*outdated
*outmoded
*out of date
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*rigid
Verb
(head)
(ossify)
pariah
Noun
(
en noun)
An outcast.
A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
Someone in exile.
A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
A person who is rejected (from society or home).
Quotations
* 2014 : (Sylvia Ann Hewlett), (Executive Presence), Prologue
*: I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah , since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know.
* 1985 — , The Two Doctors , p 14
*: ‘I’m a pariah , outlawed from Time Lord society.’
* 1842 — , The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/fitz/preface.html])
*: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.
Synonyms
* See also
Related terms
* pop culture pariah
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