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Synonyms & Antonyms of fossil
a person with old-fashioned ideas
- some old fossil who thinks that a boy and a girl shouldn't be together unsupervised until they are engaged
Synonyms for fossil
- antediluvian,
- Colonel Blimp,
- dodo,
- fogy
- (also fogey),
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- mossback,
- reactionary,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stuffed shirt
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The first known use of fossil was in 1665
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