What is a person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. [Colloq.] called?
fossil — A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. [Colloq.]. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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