Extinct

What do we mean by extinct?

No longer existing or living: synonym: dead. adjective

No longer burning or active. adjective

No longer in use. adjective

Extinguished; put out; quenched.

Having ceased; being at an end; out of existence or out of force; terminated: as, an extinct family or race; an extinct law.

Extinction. noun

To put out; destroy.

To cause to be extinct. transitive verb

Extinguished; put out; quenched adjective

Without a survivor; without force; dead adjective

Once existing as a species but now having no living members; -- used of species of living organisms, especially of animals and plants. adjective

Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.) adjective

No longer used; obsolete, discontinued. adjective

No longer in existence; having died out. adjective

No longer actively erupting. adjective

Being out or having grown cold adjective

No longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives adjective

(of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive adjective

To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.

Words that are spelled similarly to extinct:
extinct, extict.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word extinct:
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Words that rhyme with extinct:
succinct, distinct, precinct, indistinct, linked, hoodwinked, inked, blinked, interlinked, winked, voting precinct, police precinct.

Adjectives that are often used to describe extinct:
long, nigh, last, much, present, independent, numerous, day, family, scarce, clean, cleane, ancient, fossil, likely, crevice, caribbean, gigantic, riot, abdominal, light, sinecures, analogical, huge, near, tier, proclaimed, glory, ravenous, venerable, line, mysterious.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective extinct:
species, volcano, animals, volcanoes, forms, mammals, crater, race, genera, animal, genus, reptiles, group, craters, birds, groups, language, fauna, family, languages, order, bird, form, tribe, types, mammalia, races, creatures, organisms, families, plants, bison, volcanos, quadrupeds, type, taxa, orders, ones, tribes, relatives, reptile, fishes, lakes, civilization, elephant, vertebrates, cones, tasmanians, monsters, cone, ancestors, societies, dinosaurs, lake, mammoth, elephants, peoples, marsupials, cultures, horse, civilizations, creature, mammal, breed, nations, populations, dodo, fire, sloth, eteint, hominids, shells, megafauna, apes, primates, elk, fish, town, pigeon, horses, branch, varieties, glaciers, mammoths, trilobites, rhinoceros, member.

Words that sound like extinct:
extinct, extict, extent, instinct, distinct, extract, instinkt, extinctive, extend, extant, succinct, like stink, expect, extents, excitant, exsect, extolled, exciting, extinction, instincts, istic, indistinct, extracts, -istic, mixing it, exciting eye, oxtongue.