extinct

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1432; from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin extinctus, the past participle of extinguere (“to put out, destroy, abolish, extinguish”), corresponding to ex- + stinguere (“to quench”)

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/, /ɛkˈstɪŋkt/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɪŋkt

Adjective

extinct (not comparable)

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

   Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.

2. No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
   • Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.

   • 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.

3. No longer in existence; having died out.

   The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

4. (volcanology) No longer actively erupting.

   Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.

Synonyms

• (volcanology: no longer erupting): dead

Antonyms

• (no longer alight): burning
• (having died out): extant
• (volcanology: no longer erupting): active, dormant

Related terms

• extinction
• extinctive
• extinguish

Translations

extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)

• Armenian: մարած (marac), հանգած (hy) (hangac)
• Bulgarian: изгаснал (bg) (izgasnal)
• Catalan: extint
• Dutch: uit (nl), uitgedoofd (nl)
• Finnish: sammunut (fi)
• French: éteint (fr)
• German: erloschen (de)
• Hebrew: כבוי (he) (kavuy)
• Hungarian: kialudt (hu), elhamvadt
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: padam (id), mati (id)
• Japanese: 消えた (ja) (kieta)
• Macedonian: изумрен (izumren)
• Polish: wygasły m, zagasły m
• Portuguese: extinguido, apagado (pt)
• Russian: поту́хший (ru) (potúxšij), уга́сший (ru) (ugásšij)
• Spanish: extinto (es)
• Swedish: släckt (sv), slocknad (sv)
• Turkish: söndürülmek (tr)

no longer used; obsolete, discontinued

• Dutch: in onbruik
• Finnish: kadonnut (fi), poistunut (fi)
• Hungarian: megszűnt
• Japanese: 廃れた (sutareta)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: martwy (pl) m
• Portuguese: obsoleto (pt), ultrapassado (pt)
• Russian: устаре́вший (ru) (ustarévšij)
• Swedish: utdöd (sv)

having died out

• Armenian: վերացած (veracʻac)
• Bulgarian: измрял (bg) (izmrjal)
• Catalan: extint
• Czech: vyhynulý (cs) m, vymřelý m
• Danish: uddød
• Dutch: uitgestorven (nl)
• Esperanto: formortinta
• Faroese: útdeyður
• Finnish: (of a species) sukupuuttoon kuollut
• German: ausgestorben (de)
• Hungarian: kihalt (hu)
• Indonesian: punah (id)
• Japanese: 死に絶えた (shunitaeta), 絶滅した (ja) (zetsumetsu shita)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: pupus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utdødd

  Nynorsk: utdødd, utdøydd

• Persian: منقرض (fa) (monqarez)
• Polish: wymarły (pl) m
• Portuguese: extinto (pt)
• Russian: вы́мерший (ru) (výmeršij)
• Slovak: vymretý, vyhynutý (sk)
• Spanish: extinto (es)
• Swedish: utdöd (sv)
• Yiddish: אויסגעשטאָרבן (oysgeshtorbn)

no longer erupting

• Bulgarian: изгаснал (bg) (izgasnal)
• Catalan: extint
• Czech: vyhaslý m
• Dutch: uitgedoofd (nl), slapend (nl), dood (nl)
• Finnish: sammunut (fi)
• German: erloschen (de)
• Hebrew: כבוי (he) (kavuy)
• Hungarian: kialudt (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: mati (id)
• Japanese: 死んだ (ja) (shinda)
• Malay: mati
• Polish: wygasły m
• Portuguese: extinto (pt)
• Russian: поту́хший (ru) (potúxšij)
• Spanish: extinto (es)
• Swedish: slocknad (sv)

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Translations to be checked

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Further reading

• “extinct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “extinct”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.