Synonyms for extinction
ɪkˈstɪŋk ʃənex·tinc·tion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. extinction

   Synonyms:
   destruction, stifling, suffocation, death, cessation, annihilation, obsolescence

   Antonyms:
   origination, inception, planting, birth, fife, course, operation, action, exercise, prosperity, continuance, survival

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. extinctionnoun

   no longer active; extinguished

   "the extinction of the volcano"

   Synonyms:
   extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

2. extinction, defunctnessnoun

   no longer in existence

   "the extinction of a species"

   Synonyms:
   extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

3. extinctionnoun

   the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation

   Synonyms:
   extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

4. extinction, exterminationnoun

   complete annihilation

   "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"

   Synonyms:
   extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, liquidation, extinguishing

5. extinction, experimental extinctionnoun

   a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus

   Synonyms:
   extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

6. extinction, extinguishing, quenchingnoun

   the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

   "the extinction of the lights"

   Synonyms:
   extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

Matched Categories

1. • Conditioning
   • Death
   • Inaction
   • Natural Process
   • Termination

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. extinctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   extinguishment

2. extinctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   destruction, annihilation, extirpation, extermination, excision, abolition, abolishment

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "extinction":

   extinguishment, disappearance, extinguishing, termination, quenching, sunset, lapse, quench, demise, extirpation, disappearing, extermination, suppression, disappear, annihilation

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How to use extinction in a sentence?

1. Madelaine Atteberry:

   When the dinosaurs went extinct, access to different foods and environments enabled mammals to flourish and diversify rapidly in their tooth anatomy and evolve larger body size, they clearly took advantage of this opportunity, as we can see from the radiation of new mammal species that took place in a relatively short amount of time following the mass extinction.

2. Turan Basri:

   The crowd became hostile very quickly due to wanting to go to work. I sympathize with the aims of Extinction Rebellion but this was an own goal, canning Town is a very working class area. Seeing what they perceived to be middle-class protesters preventing working class people from earning a living didn't go down well.

3. Extinction Rebellion:

   This account is not managed by Extinction Rebellion UK or Extinction Rebellion East Midlands, and these messages are and so are not the movement.

4. Daniel Field:

   Today, birds are the most diverse and globally widespread group of terrestrial vertebrate animals -- there are nearly 11,000 living species, only a handful of ancestral bird lineages succeeded in surviving the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, and all of today's amazing living bird diversity can be traced to these ancient survivors.

5. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity