Exile vs Extinct - What's the difference?
exile | extinct |
The state of being banished from one's home or country.
* Shakespeare
Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
* Shakespeare
To send into exile.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
(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.
As adjectives the difference between exile and extinct
is that exile is exiled, in exile while extinct is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).As a noun exile
is exile (someone in exile).As a verb exile
is .exile
English
Noun
(wikipedia exile) (en noun)- Let them be recalled from their exile .
- Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.
Synonyms
* (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expatDerived terms
* internal exileVerb
(exil)- Exiled from eternal God.
- Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
Synonyms
* banishAnagrams
* ----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 .
