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
Old maid and fossil are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Old maid" instead a noun "Fossil".
Old maid
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- square and fossil
- square and old maid
- reactionary and fossil
- reactionary and old maid
- antediluvian and fossil
- antediluvian and old maid
- fuddy-duddy and fossil
- fuddy-duddy and old maid
- dodo and fossil
- dodo and old maid
- fogy and fossil
- fogy and old maid
- stick-in-the-mud and fossil
- stick-in-the-mud and old maid
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Old maid and Fossil. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fossil/old_maid
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