 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
extinct
adjective
1: 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" [syn: {nonextant}] [ant: {extant}]
2: of e.g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"
[syn: {inactive}] [ant: {active}, {dormant}]
3: of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his
extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"
[syn: {out(p)}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extinct \Ex*tinct"\, verb (used with an object)
To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extinct \Ex*tinct"\, adjective [L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of
extinguere, exstinguere. See {Extinguish}.]
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.
3. Specifically: Once existing as a species but now having no
living members; -- used of species of living organisms,
especially of animals and plants; as, dinosaurs are now
extinct; the dodo bird is extinct.
[PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "extinct":
SOL, ago, all bets off, all gone, all off, all over, all up,
ancient, annihilated, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic,
asleep, at an end, away, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, canceled,
cold, collapsed, complete, concluded, dated, dead, dead and buried,
deceased, decided, defunct, deleted, demode, departed, disappeared,
disused, done, done for, done with, dormant, down the drain,
elapsed, ended, exanimate, expired, expunged, extinguished, fallen,
fini, finished, forgotten, gone, gone away, gone glimmering,
gone out, gone-by, had it, has-been, inactive, irrecoverable,
kaput, kaputt, lapsed, late, lifeless, lost, lost to sight,
lost to view, missing, no more, nonexistent, obsolete, old hat,
old-fashioned, out, out of date, out of sight, out of style,
out of use, outmoded, outworn, over, overthrown, passe, passed,
passed away, past, past and gone, perfected, perished, quenched,
run out, set at rest, settled, shot, superseded, terminated,
through, through with, unanimated, vanished, washed up, wiped out,
wound up, zapped
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