Dilapidated vs Extinct - What's the difference?
dilapidated | extinct | Related terms |
Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
(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.
Dilapidated is a related term of extinct.
As adjectives the difference between dilapidated and extinct
is that dilapidated is having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect while extinct is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).As a verb dilapidated
is .dilapidated
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beat * beat up * beaten up * bedraggled * broken-down * ramshackle * ruinous * rundown * tatterdemalion * tumbledownextinct
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 .