Outmoded vs Extinct - What's the difference?
outmoded | extinct | Related terms |
unfashionable
obsolete
(outmode)
(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 outmoded and extinct
is that outmoded is unfashionable while extinct is extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc..As a verb outmoded
is past tense of outmode.outmoded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His pipe was as outmoded as his ideas.
- His outmoded word processor was a heap of junk.
- His outmoded record player is now useless.
Verb
(head)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 .