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Webster 1913 Edition
Extinct
1.
Extinguished; put out; quenched;
as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is
extinct
; an extinct
volcano.Light, the prime work of God, to me is
extinct
. Milton.
2.
Without a survivor; without force; dead;
as, a family becomes
extinct
; an extinct
feud or law.Ex-tinct′
,Verb.
T.
To cause to be extinct.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Extinct
EXTINCT'
,Adj.
1.
Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, fire, light or a lamp is extinct.2.
Being at an end; having no survivor; as, a family or race is extinct.3.
Being at an end; having ceased. The enmity between the families is extinct.My days are extinct. Job.17.
4.
Being at an end, by abolition or disuse; having no force; as, the law is extinct.Definition 2024
extinct
extinct
English
Adjective
extinct (comparative more extinct, superlative most extinct)
- (dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.
- No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
- Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 5, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 275:
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there as two words but therein as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as thereby.
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
- No longer in existence; having died out.
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- (volcanology) No longer actively erupting.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
Synonyms
- (volcanology: no longer erupting): dead
Antonyms
- (no longer alight): burning
- (having died out): extant
- (volcanology: no longer erupting): active, dormant
Related terms
Translations
extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
no longer used; obsolete, discontinued
having died out
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no longer erupting