extinctual

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

extinct +‎ -ual

Adjective[edit]

extinctual (comparative more extinctual, superlative most extinctual)

  1. Of, related to, or resembling extinction.
    • 1968, Free Lance Press, The Free Lance, Volume 4
      I mourn because I would not kill, knowing killing is suffering a snarling, extinctual end; and I mourn that something weak, nameless — inside me — allows this lie of color life in my blood and bone.
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