Extinct vs Wichita - What's the difference?
extinct | wichita |
(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.
A tribe of Native Americans, most populous in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Their Caddoan language, which is almost extinct.
As an adjective extinct
is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).As a proper noun wichita is
a tribe of native americans, most populous in kansas, oklahoma, and texas.As a noun wichita is
a member of this tribe.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 .