Synonyms of fossils

fossils

noun

plural of fossil

as in conservatives

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 & Similar Words

• conservatives
• veterans
• antediluvians
• stuffed shirts
• mossbacks
• fogies
• reactionaries
• fuds
• stick-in-the-muds
• fuddy-duddies
• rightists
• dodoes
• Tories
• old hands
• old maids
• mandarins
• old-timers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• moderns
• radicals
• liberals
• hipsters
• progressives
• trendies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fossils

Researchers combed through 60,000 bone fragments excavated from the cave, identifying two dozen or so that appeared to closely resemble hominin bones and testing them to see whether the fossils contained any useful biomolecular information. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

Tyrannosaurus rex fossils are relatively common finds, with dozens of variously complete examples on display in museums around the world. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026

See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026

Beyond art, Griffin has also been a major buyer of important documents and prehistoric fossils. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Ruzich is a former newspaper reporter who now sells stones and fossils at Affordable Antiques and More in Naperville. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

As paleobotanists, my colleagues and I use plant fossils to identify which species once lived in a place. — Regan E. Dunn, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

Now he's helped document the discovery of the seven fossils, all found along the same 19-acre stretch of beach in Rhode Island. — Jack Perry, The Providence Journal, 22 Aug. 2026

The source of historical botany was measured through the archives of plant fossils until the 1500s, upon the discovery of papermaking. — Candace Barone, Florida Times-Union, 15 Aug. 2026