Extinct

Quick meaning: Extinct is an adjective meaning Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.

Meaning

Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.

More Meanings

1. Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
2. Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
3. Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
4. Synonym of extinguish.
5. Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.
6. Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.
7. (archaic) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.

Example Sentences

Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking.

My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.

Conversation seemed nearly extinct, and yet neither offered to turn back.

Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.

Word Forms

• extincts
• extincting
• extincted

Synonyms for extinct

Depending on context, synonyms include anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic.

Antonyms for extinct

Common opposites include alight, burning, inextinct, unextinct, abuzz, active.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include extinguished, dead, out, inactive, quenched, extirpated.

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