Adjective

(en adjective)

prominent or noticeable; standing out from others

exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority

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projecting outwards

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unresolved; not settled or finished

owed as a debt

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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.

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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 .