Old-fashioned vs Extinct - What's the difference?
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Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
* , chapter=1
, title= Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
A whiskey-based cocktail.
* 1996 , Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
(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.
Old-fashioned is a related term of extinct.
As adjectives the difference between old-fashioned and extinct
is that old-fashioned is of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue while extinct is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).As a noun old-fashioned
is a whiskey-based cocktail.old-fashioned
English
Alternative forms
* old fashionedAdjective
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Usage notes
* Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.Noun
(wikipedia old-fashioned) (en noun)- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds .
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 .