As an adjective extinct
is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).
As a noun dinocarid is
any extinct marine animal of the class
dinocaridida .
extinct English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
* Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
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- 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 .
No longer in existence; having died out.
- The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
(vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .
Synonyms
* dead
Antonyms
* (no longer alight) burning
* (having died out) extant
* active, dormant
Related terms
* extinction
* extinctive
* extinguish
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dinocarid English
Noun
( en noun)
Any extinct marine animal of the class Dinocaridida |
