# verknöchert

verknöchert is a German adjective meaning “ossified”. Forms: verknöcherter, am verknöchertsten.

## Forms

- Comparative: verknöcherter
- Superlative: am verknöchertsten

## In other languages

- Русский: окостенелый

## Meanings

1. _figurative_ ossified
   - 1914, Erich Mühsam, Idealistisches Manifest, in: Alarm. Manifeste aus 20 Jahren, Der Syndikalist, page 52 — The youth, the offspring, the coming generation declared itself of age. The aged are not entitled, with their outdated, ossified principles, to question it.

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