Outmoded vs Fossilize - What's the difference?
outmoded | fossilize |
unfashionable
obsolete
(outmode)
to make into a fossil
* 1989 , Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
to become a fossil
(figurative, by extension, intransitive) to become inflexible or outmoded
(figurative, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
* Elizabeth Browning
As verbs the difference between outmoded and fossilize
is that outmoded is (outmode) while fossilize is to make into a fossil.As a adjective outmoded
is unfashionable.outmoded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His pipe was as outmoded as his ideas.
- His outmoded word processor was a heap of junk.
- His outmoded record player is now useless.
Verb
(head)fossilize
English
Alternative forms
* fossiliseVerb
(fossiliz)- Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
- Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.