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

Importantly, all of this imaging was possible without damaging Scotty’s priceless fossils. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 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

Neanderthals and Denisovans left behind fossils — from which scientists could extract DNA — as well as identifiable traces in human genes. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 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