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7-letter words (1 found)

EXTINCT,

5-letter words (3 found)

ETTIN,TINCT,XENIC,

4-letter words (17 found)

CENT,CINE,CITE,ETIC,EXIT,NETT,NEXT,NICE,NITE,NIXE,TEIN,TENT,TEXT,TICE,TINE,TINT,TITE,

3-letter words (15 found)

CIT,ICE,NET,NIE,NIT,NIX,TEC,TEN,TET,TEX,TIC,TIE,TIN,TIT,TIX,

2-letter words (9 found)

EN,ET,EX,IN,IT,NE,TE,TI,XI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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Definitions and meaning of extinct

extinct

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/, /ɛk-/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋkt
  • Hyphenation: ex‧tinct

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

extinct (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
    Antonyms: alight, burning
  2. (figurative) Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
  3. 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.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obsolete
    Antonyms: (archaic) inextinct, unextinct; see also Thesaurus:active
  5. (chiefly biology) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:inexistent
    Antonyms: extant, (archaic) inextinct, living, nonextinct, unextinct; see also Thesaurus:existent
  6. (geology) Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dead
    Antonyms: active, dormant, nonextinct, unextinct
  7. Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, due to too short of a half-life; for example, neptunium-237 (half-life about 2 million years). (See Extinct radionuclide.)
  8. (obsolete) Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English extincten (“to extinguish or put out (a fire, light, etc.); to destroy, kill; (figurative) to suppress (an uprising); (law) to quash or stop (legal proceedings); to cancel (a privilege, title, etc.); (medicine) to eliminate or reduce (inflammation, an ulcer, etc.)”), from extinct (adjective) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).

Verb

extinct (third-person singular simple present extincts, present participle extincting, simple past extincted, past participle extincted or (obsolete) extinct) (transitive)

  1. Synonym of extinguish
    1. (obsolete) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
    2. (obsolete, figurative) To kill (someone).
    3. (obsolete, figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
      2. (specifically, biology) To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective sense 4).
        Antonym: de-extinct
    4. (obsolete, figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
    5. (obsolete, figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
Usage notes

Sense 1.3.1 (“to cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct”) is the only sense that is current.

Derived terms
  • extincted (adjective) (obsolete)
  • extincting (noun) (obsolete)
  • extincture (obsolete)
Translations

Etymology 3

Either:

  • from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus, a noun use of the perfect passive participle of extinguō, exstinguō (see etymology 1); or
  • from the verb (see etymology 2).

Noun

extinct (uncountable)

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

References

Further reading

  • “extinct”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “extinct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “extinct”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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