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Faded vs Extinct - What's the difference?

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Faded is a related term of extinct.


As adjectives the difference between faded and extinct

is that faded is that has lost some of its former colour or intensity while extinct is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).

As a verb faded

is (fade).

faded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fade)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has lost some of its former colour or intensity.
  • Derived terms

    * fadedly * fadedness

    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.
  • *
  • 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