extinct

Meanings

Adjective

no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
- "an extinct species of fish"
- "an extinct royal family"
- "extinct laws and customs"
(of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive
- "an extinct volcano"

Adjective Satellite

being out or having grown cold
- "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"

Adj

Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
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.
Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.

Verb

Synonym of extinguish.
To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
Synonym of extinguish.
To kill (someone).
Synonym of extinguish.
To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
Synonym of extinguish.
To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective sense 2.3).
Synonym of extinguish.
To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
Synonym of extinguish.
To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).

Noun

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

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*h₁eǵʰs
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.

Synonyms

anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, asleep, at rest, backward, backwards, behind the times, beingless, cadaverous, clay-cold, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, deceased, decomposed, defunct, departed, discontinued, disused, dootsie, elderly, expired, extinct, extinction, fey, fossilized, gone, good, Havishamesque, idle, inanimate, inert, inessential, inexistent, kaput, late, lifeless, living impaired, low, Miss Havishamesque, no longer with us, no more, nonexistent, nonextant, null, obsolete, old, old school, old-fashioned, oldfangled, out, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parachronistic, passé, perished, reposing, resting, six feet deep, six feet under, stiff, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, wasted, whilom, with God, workless, zilch

Antonyms

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

Scrabble Score: 16

extinct is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
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Words With Friends Score: 18

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