| Main Entry: | ossified |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bony |
Synonyms: |
fossilized, hard, hardened, petrified, rigid |
| Main Entry: | ossify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become hard from aging |
Synonyms: |
congeal, fossilize, freeze, harden, indurate, petrify, solidify, stiffen, thicken, turn to bone |
Antonyms: |
melt, soften |
| Main Entry: | harden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become solid |
Synonyms: |
amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, indurate, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify |
Antonyms: |
liquefy, melt, soften |
| Main Entry: | inactive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not engaged in action; inert, lazy |
Synonyms: |
abeyant, asleep, blah*, disengaged, do-nothing, dormant, down, draggy, dull, idle, immobile, in holding pattern, indolent, inoperative, jobless, latent, lax, lethargic, limp, low-key, mothballed, motionless, on hold, ossified, out of action, out of commission, out of service, out of work, passive, quiescent, quiet, sedentary, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, stable, static, still, torpid, unemployed, unoccupied, unused |
Antonyms: |
active, busy, involved, working |
| Main Entry: | petrified |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardened |
Synonyms: |
calcified, fossilized, frozen, ossified, solidified |
| Main Entry: | stabilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or keep in steady state; make resistant to change |
Synonyms: |
balance, ballast, bolt, brace, buttress, counterbalance, counterpoise, equalize, fasten, firm, firm up, fix, freeze*, maintain, ossify, poise, preserve, prop, secure, set, settle, stabilitate, steady, stiffen, support, sustain, uphold |
Antonyms: |
change, shake, vary, weaken, wobble |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, inflexible |
Synonyms: |
annealed, arthritic, benumbed, brittle, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical, numbed, ossified, petrified, refractory, resistant, rheumatic, rigid, set, solid, solidified, starched, starchy, stark, steely, stiff as a board, stony, taut, tense, thick, thickened, tight, unbending, unflexible, ungraceful, unsupple, unyielding, wooden |
Antonyms: |
flexible, pliable, pliant, soft |
| Main Entry: | stiffen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become harder |
Synonyms: |
anneal, benumb, brace, cake, candy, cement, chill, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, crystallize, curdle, firm, fix, freeze, gel, harden, inflate, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, precipitate, prop, reinforce, set, solidify, stabilize, starch, steady, strengthen, tauten, tense, thicken |
Antonyms: |
liquefy, loosen, melt |
| Main Entry: | thick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concentrated, dense |
Synonyms: |
caked, clabbered, close, clotted, coagulated, compact, compressed, concrete, condensed, congealed, consolidated, crowded, curdled, deep, firm, fixed, gelatinous, gloppy, gooey, gummous, gummy, gunky, heavy, impenetrable, impervious, jelled, jellied, opaque, ossified, ropy, set, sloppy, solid, solidified, stiff, syrupy, thickened, turbid, viscid, viscous, vitrified |
Antonyms: |
diluted, loose, thin, watery |
| Main Entry: | thicken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set; make more dense |
Synonyms: |
add, buttress, cake, clabber, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curdle, deepen, enlarge, expand, freeze, gel, grow thick, harden, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen, swell, widen |
Antonyms: |
dilute, liquefy, melt, thin, water down |