fossil

1. 1.

   characteristic of a fossil

Other forms of fossil

plural

fossils·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fossil

What does fossil mean?

fossil means "someone whose style is out of fashion". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fossil?

fossil has 2 syllables: fos-sil. The stress falls on "fos". In IPA it is /ˈfɑsəl/.

What is another word for fossil?

Close synonyms include dodo, fogy, fogey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fossil a common word?

fossil is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fossil?

1 word rhymes with fossil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.