fossil

fossil is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
2. adjective. Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells.
3. noun. A substance dug from the earth.
4. noun. The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living.
5. noun. A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present.
6. noun. the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
7. noun. someone whose style is out of fashion

   Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy

8. adjective. characteristic of a fossil

Synonyms

dodo, fogey, fogy

Common word forms

fossils, fossiled, fossilise, fossilize

Words from these letters

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