Conventional vs Extinct - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
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Banal]], trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or [[clichéd.
(finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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No longer in existence; having died out.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
Conventional is a related term of extinct.
As adjectives the difference between conventional and extinct
is that conventional is pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour while extinct is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).As a noun conventional
is (finance) a conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.conventional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
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- The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
Synonyms
* ("pertaining to a convention"): typical, canonical * ("banal"): stereotypicalAntonyms
* ("pertaining to a convention"): atypical, out of the ordinary, unconventional * ("ordinary"): imaginativeDerived terms
* conventionalism * conventionalist * conventionally * conventional mortgage loan * conventional war * conventional warfare * conventional weapon * conventional weaponry * conventional wisdomNoun
(en noun)extinct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby .
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .