sclerotic

Modifies a noun

• economy: The bureaucratic totalitarian system with its sclerotic economy was not attractive to the masses in Western Europe, America and Japan.
• scatter: A mechanism to enable the instrument to decouple ( for e.g. , sclerotic scatter ) is required.
• ring: These were soon shown to be pieces of the bony sclerotic ring around the mosasaur eye ).
• rim: X-ray on the right tibia revealed several osteolytic cystic lesions with sclerotic rims.
• nature: Three weeks ago the European Commission launched a swathe of legal proceedings aimed at loosening the sclerotic nature of the European internal energy market.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Without firms prepared to innovate and adjust, economies become sclerotic.