Extinct vs Extant - What's the difference?
extinct | extant |
(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.
Still in existence.
* 1661 , ,
Currently existing; not having disappeared.
Still alive; not extinct.
Extant is a antonym of extinct.
As adjectives the difference between extinct and extant
is that extinct is extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc. while extant is still in existence.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 .
Synonyms
* deadAntonyms
* (no longer alight) burning * (having died out) extant * active, dormantExternal links
* *extant
English
Adjective
(-)The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
