Synonyms of ossified

ossified 1 of 2

adjective

as in stubborn

sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

the company's ossified management team failed to see the technological revolution that was sweeping their own industry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stubborn
• adamant
• hardened
• steadfast
• intransigent
• obstinate
• obdurate
• inflexible
• immovable
• unbending
• bullheaded
• adamantine
• implacable
• mulish
• opinionated
• unyielding
• unrelenting
• headstrong
• uncompromising
• pertinacious
• hardheaded
• pat
• dogged
• willful
• perverse
• pigheaded
• obsessive
• hard
• determined
• strict
• persistent
• hidebound
• stiff-necked
• self-willed
• hard-nosed
• rigid
• self-opinionated
• inconvincible
• iron
• deaf to reason
• resolved
• relentless
• wrongheaded
• inexorable
• stern
• wayward
• intractable
• tenacious
• recalcitrant
• severe
• refractory
• unflinching
• hard-line
• cantankerous
• defiant
• narrow-minded
• unmanageable
• uncooperative
• contumacious
• insubordinate
• hard-shell
• firm
• disobedient
• ungovernable
• anal-retentive
• mutinous
• insurgent
• single-minded
• unruly
• invincible
• indomitable
• contrary
• cussed
• set
• stouthearted
• confirmed
• unconquerable
• bloody-minded
• inveterate
• unregenerate
• hell-bent
• demanding
• froward
• exacting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pliant
• pliable
• acquiescent
• flexible
• compliant
• amenable
• complying
• yielding
• agreeable
• obedient
• docile
• tractable
• submissive
• receptive
• accepting
• responsive
• willing
• reasonable
• manageable
• temperate
• relenting
• placable
• subservient
• slavish
• governable
• persuadable

ossified

2 of 2

verb

past tense of ossify

as in calcified

Related Words

• calcified
• crystallized
• rigidified
• petrified
• thickened
• coagulated
• stiffened
• clotted
• gelled
• gelatinized
• jellied
• jelled
• annealed
• encrusted
• tempered
• case-hardened
• caked
• callused
• gelated
• congealed
• indurated
• solidified
• hardened
• froze
• concreted
• firmed (up)
• set

Dissimilar Words

• liquefied
• softened
• dissolved
• fused
• melted
• thawed
• smelted
• fluxed
• deliquesced
• unfroze

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ossified

Adjective

The story is organized by the seasons, and the director uses changes in the weather and the light to build the picture’s gathering mood of ossified brutality. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026

Yet in China, state influence over resource allocation has ossified markets, especially by reducing bankruptcies, in ways that limit the fruits of innovation and efficiency gains in the broader economy. — Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026

Her focus is on long-term planning, the nimble deployment of neighborhood-level safety measures, and overhauling the ossified internal systems that have slowed ACHD’s response to the county’s breakneck growth. — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2026

In her film, Sanguinetti presents a subtle thread about the nature of western spaces defined by ossified traditions, the face of which is being altered by the specter of modernity. — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

In his view, abolishing the proscenium would help dismantle ossified hierarchies. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026

These had a head dominated by large eyes and a partially ossified jaw—but again, no external gills. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026

But rather than simply repeat the even-then ossified list of events leading to the invention of photography and the medium’s later innovations, the book uses a series of stories, reminiscences, and tall tales to describe how photography transformed everyday (and not so everyday) experience. — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026

Lockhart, a mathematician who taught first at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz and then for many years at Saint Ann’s, a progressive private school in Brooklyn, argues that the injury is due to our ossified K–12 mathematics curriculum. — Dan Rockmore, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026