English to English Dictionary - Meaning of Ossified in English is : fossilized, fossilised, hardened, petrified, stiffened, inactive, bony, calcified, indurated, rigidified, set, stiff, uniform, vitrified, adamant, adamantine, backed, bone, callous, calloused,

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Word	Ossified
	set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; obsolete fossilized ways; an ossified bureaucratic system / set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs / Changed to bone or something resembling bone / turn into bone or bony tissue.,
Usage	⇒ these tracheal cartilages may ossify
Synonyms	fossilized, fossilised, hardened, petrified, stiffened, inactive, bony, calcified, indurated, rigidified, set, stiff, uniform, vitrified, adamant, adamantine, backed, bone, callous, calloused,
Antonyms	flexible, accepting, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, docile, governable, manageable, obedient, persuadable, placable, pliable, pliant, reasonable, receptive, relenting, responsive, slavish,

Synonyms explanation is given below :

Adamant

inflexible, unyielding, stubborn, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, uncompromising, determined,

She is adamant that she wont attend the party / In this movie Bronson played the part of a revenge-driven man, adamant in his determination to punish the cri...

Adamantine

adamant, inflexible, rigid, inexorable, unrelenting, unyielding, hard, intransigent,

adamantine chains

Backed

supported, endorsed, favored, sponsored, upheld, abetted, advocated, aided, approved,

he had a newspaper empire backing him

Bone

swot, drum, ivory, pearl, bony, cartilage, cram, grind away, off-white, adamant,

He broke his collar bone / his injuries included many broken bones / A broken bone in her arm

Bony

scrawny, skinny, thin, emaciated, gaunt, spare, skeletal, lean, cadaverous, haggard,

Emaciated bony hands A bony shad fillet / Emaciated bony hands / Children with autism have difficulty using their imagination, communicating or interacting. ...

Calcified

callous, fossilized, hardened, petrified, set, solidified, backed, calcareous,

calcified cartilage

Callous

unfeeling, insensitive, hard, heartless, indifferent, unsympathetic, cold, ruthless, stony,

He showed a callous indifference to her sufferings / He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards. / a s...

Calloused

callous, thickened, hardened, flinty, hard, indurated, inured, toughened, firmed, grim,

a callused palm

Fossilised

fossilized, ossified, inflexible, ,

Fossilized

ossified, fossilised, fossil, antiquated, petrified, archaic, calcified, fossilize,

a fossilized bone

Hardened

callous, toughened, hard, inured, unfeeling, hard-boiled, tempered, tough, insensitive,

hardened steel

Indurated

hardened, inured, stiffened, toughened, callous, impassive, inveterate, set, backed,

a bed of indurated clay

Petrified

afraid, horrified, frozen, paralyzed, terrified, frightened, hardened, intimidated,

the petrified child clung to her mother

Set

group, put, fix, fixed, place, position, arrange, clique, establish, circle, coterie,

Can you get a cutlery set for me? / there is no set procedure / The ring was set with sapphires. / Set that ladder against the wall by the window, please.

Stiff

rigid, hard, formal, inflexible, firm, unyielding, stilted, stubborn, prim, strong,

The wire is too stiff to be bent / a stiff black collar

Stiffened

hardened, solidified, tightened, indurated, reinforced, toughened, firmed, ossified, set,

he stiffened his knees in an effort to prevent them from trembling

Uniform

regular, even, consistent, unvarying, unchanging, steady, invariable, constant,

One can see uniform tall white buildings on MG street / blocks of stone of uniform size

Vitrified

glassy, vitreous, glazed, hardened, ossified, stiffened, indurated, petrified, set, alter,

To vitrify soil, normally four carbon electrode rods are inserted into the ground and a powerful electric current is turned on.

Antonyms explanation is given below :

Accepting

assenting, consenting, acquiescing, endorsing, ratifying, affirming, approving, concurring,

on the morrow, they attacked the city

Acquiescent

submissive, compliant, docile, yielding, agreeable, obedient, willing, amenable, tractable,

Her parents are too acquiescent for inter-caste marriage / the unions were acquiescent and there was no overt conflict

Agreeable

pleasant, amiable, friendly, pleasing, genial, congenial, kind, cordial, good-natured,

Its an agreeable weather for picnic / a cheerful and agreeable companion / A good dinner and agreeable talk go together

Amenable

docile, tractable, compliant, submissive, obedient, manageable, acquiescent, agreeable,

An employee is amenable to the officer / As a foreign diplomat, he claimed he was not amenable to minor local laws. / whatever you decide to do, I'm amenable...

Compliant

submissive, tractable, obedient, yielding, acquiescent, amenable, docile, manageable,

The compliant government gave in to the hijackers demands / Because Joel usually gave in and went along with whatever his friends desired, his mother worried...

Complying

accepting, acquiescing, conforming, obeying, assenting, compliant, consenting, submissive,

we are unable to comply with your request

Docile

submissive, tractable, obedient, compliant, tame, amenable, yielding, manageable,

The docile masses of an enslaved nation A gentle old horse, docile and obedient / The docile masses of an enslaved nation / As docile as he seems today, that...

Flexible

pliant, pliable, malleable, supple, yielding, elastic, plastic, tractable, ductile, lithe,

He keeps his body flexible through regular excercises / flexible rubber seals / A flexible fishing rod

Governable

manageable, controllable, docile, tractable, malleable, obedient, amenable, compliant,

Alice was weeping quietly, snuffling a little

Manageable

tractable, docile, compliant, amenable, obedient, yielding, flexible, submissive, tame,

One should opt for a family of manageable size / it leaves hair feeling soft and manageable

Obedient

compliant, submissive, docile, tractable, acquiescent, dutiful, yielding, amenable, meek,

The circus animals are very obedient / she was totally obedient to him

Persuadable

persuasible, susceptible, tractable, amenable, receptive, flexible, pliant, responsive,

they need to identify the most persuadable voters

Placable

conciliatory, forgiving, appeasable, benevolent, conciliable, forbearing, generous, kind,

I'm not the most placable person when it comes to supermarkets, and such a conversation would have had an algesic effect on me, so we headed for a different ...

Pliable

flexible, pliant, malleable, ductile, plastic, elastic, supple, yielding, tractable,

Children have pliable mind / In remodeling the bathroom, we replaced all the old, rigid lead pipes with new, pliable copper tubing. / Because the leather is ...

Pliant

flexible, pliable, malleable, supple, yielding, plastic, soft, limber, ductile, tractable,

The natural rubber is very pliant / Pinocchio's disposition was pliant; he was like putty in his tempters' hands. / a pliant Congress that will do whatever t...

Reasonable

sensible, rational, logical, sound, sane, wise, judicious, intelligent, moderate, sober,

He is perfectly reasonable in his judgement / no reasonable person could have objected / reasonable demands / a reasonable price

Receptive

open, susceptible, responsive, sensitive, sympathetic, amenable, persuadable, hospitable,

He has a receptive mind / Adventure-loving Huck Finn proved a receptive audience for Tom's tales of buried treasure and piracy. / I was happy to be speaking ...

Relenting

relaxing, pitying, easing, forbearing, forgiving, remitting, slackening, softening,

she was going to refuse his request, but relented

Responsive

receptive, sensitive, open, susceptible, sympathetic, amenable, impressionable, tractable,

Be responsive to the criticisms / The patient was not responsive to the treatment. / a flexible service that is responsive to changing social and economic pa...

Slavish

subservient, submissive, servile, menial, abject, obsequious, fawning, grovelling, base,

Womans life without man is slavish / a politician and his slavish followers / he noted the slavish, feudal respect they had for her

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