Fossil
Fossil noun - A person with old-fashioned ideas.
Usage example: some old fossil who thinks that a boy and a girl shouldn't be together unsupervised until they are engaged
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Synonyms for Fossil
Modern
Modern noun - A person with very modern ideas.
Usage example: the leaders of the American suffragists were originally regarded by many people as uppity moderns who should have stayed in their place
Both words in one sentence
- Coo from Summer Days with Coo is a Kappa who spent 200 years as a fossil underground before being revived in modern day Japan.
Source: Living Relic -
Coo from Summer Days with Coo spends 200 years as a fossil underground before being revived in modern day Tokyo.
Source: Fish Out of Temporal Water - The tuatara is the modern reptile more often cited for being a "living fossil", and with reason.
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