Fossil and Radical

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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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Radical is an antonym for fossil.

Nearby Words: fossilized, fossilised, fossilize

Radical noun - A person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government.

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Fossil is an antonym for radical.

Nearby Words: radically, radicalism, radicalize, radicalise, radicalised

actual fossil

actual radical

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