Synonyms for extinct
ɪkˈstɪŋktex·tinct

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1. extinctadjective

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

   Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.

   Antonyms:
   burning

2. extinctadjective

   The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

   Antonyms:
   extant

3. extinctadjective

   Synonyms:
   dormant

   Antonyms:
   active

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. extinct, nonextantadjective

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

   "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs"

   Synonyms:
   out(p), nonextant

   Antonyms:
   surviving, living, live, alive, extant, active

2. extinctadjective

   (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive

   "an extinct volcano"

   Synonyms:
   out(p), nonextant

   Antonyms:
   living, extant, active, live, surviving, alive

3. extinct, out(p)adjective

   being out or having grown cold

   "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"

   Antonyms:
   alive, active, live, living, extant, surviving

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. extinctadjective

   Synonyms:
   extinguished, quenched, put out

2. extinctadjective

   Synonyms:
   ended, terminated, closed, brought to an end, no longer existing

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "extinct":

   extirpated, missing, disappeared, gone, vanished, extinguishment

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1. Craig Rowland:

   This is a tremendous success story – to go from nearly extinct to on the road to recovery, we’ve only reached this point of being able to downlist because of successful partnerships with landowners, conservation agencies, businesses, other agencies, and the work of our national wildlife refuges to conserve Fender’s butterfly.

2. Claudio Sillero:

   As a result lions were brought over from southern Africa, drawing some concern form biologists that those lions are not the most immediate genetic relatives of the now extinct Rwanda lions.

3. Kenneth Feld:

   If we didn’t do it, the elephants would go extinct in North America, likely in 25 years or less.

4. W. Somerset Maugham:

   You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

5. Gerardo Ceballos:

   People think nothing bad will come from species loss, because scientists can't predict exactly how many need to go extinct before the world collapses, the problem is that our environment is like a brick wall. It will hold if you pull individual bricks, but eventually it takes just one to make it suddenly fall apart.