extinct

Meaning

Adj

1. (dated, not-comparable) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
2. (figuratively, not-comparable) Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
3. (figuratively, not-comparable) Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, 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.
4. (figuratively, not-comparable) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
5. (figuratively, not-comparable) Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
6. (figuratively, not-comparable) Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
7. (figuratively, not-comparable, obsolete) Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) Synonym of extinguish.
2. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) Synonym of extinguish.
3. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) Synonym of extinguish.
4. (figuratively, obsolete, specifically, transitive) Synonym of extinguish.
5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) Synonym of extinguish.
6. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) Synonym of extinguish.

Noun

Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).

Opposite of

alight, burning, inextinct, unextinct, inactive, nondriven, quiet, restful, sleeping, extant, living, nonextinct, inexistent, active, dormant

Synonyms

dead

💀

vanished

out

extinguished

defunct

die out

nonexistent

disappear

ceased

obsolete

nonextant

vanish

stopped

vestigial

wanting

wrapped

extinct species

no longer in use

didine

blind

dull faded

cease

covered

deceased

departed

disappeared

done for

erase

expired

lifeless

lost

muffled

put out

Translations

extinto

extinto

ausgestorben

extint

éteint

estinto

uitgestorven

extinguido

extincto

erloschen

éteinte

spento

مندثر

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: extinct

In summary

From Late Middle English extinct (“eliminated, eradicated, extinguished”), from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus (“extinguished, quenched; destroyed, killed; made extinct”), the perfect passive participles of extinguō, exstinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench; (figurative) to abolish; to destroy, kill”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + stinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench”) (from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push”)). The Middle English word displaced Middle English aqueint, aquenched (“extinct; extinguished”). Doublet of extinguish.

Sentences

The species was originally considered already extinct at the time of its discovery .