Extinct

Definition: Extinct

Extinct

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Of e.g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano".

3. Of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "faint smoke from the extinguished candle"; "the fire is out"; "the quenched flames".

Date "extinct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Extinct

Synonyms: extinguished (adj), inactive (adj), nonextant (adj), out(p) (adj), quenched (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: active (adj), dormant (adj), extant (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Death	Adjective: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life. Verb: dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.
Destruction	Adjective: destroyed; Verb: perishing; Verb: trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction; Noun: extinct.
Inexistence	Verb: not exist; have no existence; be null and void; cease to exist; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct; Adjective: die out; disappear; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die.
	Perished, annihilated; Verb: extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct; (dead).
The Past	Adjective: past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete; (old).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Oh Lisa everyone knows leprechauns are extinct! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Men of your type will soon become extinct. You'll become something worse than dead (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution; writing credit: Jean-Luc Godard; Paul Éluard) This plant has been extinct for sixty billion years (My Science Project; writing credit: Jonathan R. Betuel) Ok my friends, get ready for the most delicious extinct animal you've ever tasted (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) If Clark Kent were any slower, he'd be extinct. (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana)
Clever	Extinct life (references; author: unknown) A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Extinct Pink (1969) Rex the Runt: How Dinosaurs Became Extinct (1994) Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (reference) Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada (reference) Extinct (reference) Extinct Humans (reference) Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Latin America Otherwise) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Amazing Animals * Children * Family * Extinct Animal (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Extinct Instinct [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photos: Extinct
	Subject(s): ... Crater, Lake, extinct, volcano, sage ...
	Subject(s): ... Extinct, animals, cemetery ...
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Illustrations: Extinct
	Subject(s): ... iguanodon, dinosaur, extinct ...
	Subject(s): ... Extinct, elephant, mastodon ...
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Computer Images: Extinct
	Subject(s): ... Dinosaur, extinct ...
	Subject(s): ... bird, extinct ...
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Formed by crater of extinct volcano. Credit: CDC.		Scenic view of snags in foreground and lava beds from extinct volcanoes near Roswell Field Office, New Mexico. Credit: Mike Williams.
	Uncle Sam looks at exhibit of Bull Moose labeled "Extinct". Credit: Library of Congress.		Soda Springs on Bear River, extinct basins. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Lithuania	Between 400-600 AD, the Lithuanian and Latvian languages split from the Eastern Baltic (Prussian) language group, which subsequently became extinct. (references)
	Sao Tome and Principe	Both are part of an extinct volcanic mountain range, which also includes the island of Bioko in Equatorial Guinea to the north and Mount Cameroon on the African west coast. (references)
	Lithuania	Merging with the indigenous population, they gave rise to the Balts, a distinct Indo-European ethnic group whose descendants are the present-day Lithuanian and Latvian nations and the now extinct Prussians. (references)
Indigenous People	Brazil	The report also noted that, in the 500 years since discovery, 85 percent of native languages had become extinct. (references)
Minorities	Nepal	Human rights groups report that the languages of the small Kusunda, Dura, and Meche communities are nearly extinct. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Jack Hanna	They're pretty fast. By the way, the chinchilla is almost extinct in the wild. We have thousands of them in captivity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	To follow to the tomb the last of his race and to tread on the graves of extinct nations excite melancholy reflections.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Extinct" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.54% of the time. "Extinct" is used about 434 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.54%	432	13,298
Noun (proper)	0.46%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	434	N/A

Expressions using "extinct": become extinct ♦ extinct custom ♦ extinct volcano ♦ extinct vulcano ♦ the Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "extinct": long-extinct, now-extinct.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "extinct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zhdukur (defunct, evaporated, lost, missing, vanished), i vdekur (asleep, dead, deceased, decedent, defunct, departed, gangrenous, gathered to one's fathers, lifeless, stone-dead), i shuar (blasted, dead end, defeated, erased, out). (various references)

Arabic		‏منقرض, ‏منطفئ, ‏مندرس, ‏هامد (inert, lifeless, static, tranquil), ‏لاغ (invalid, null, void), ‏بائد (obsolete). (various references)

Bulgarian		угаснал (dead, lustreless), остарял (antiquated, dated, dead, grown old, hoary, moldy, moss-grown, mouldy, musty, obsolete, old, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, played out, prehistoric, primitive, rusty, superannuated, worm-eaten), отменен (annulled), мъртъв (cold, dead, dull, lifeless, low, set), изчезнал (lost), изгаснал. (various references)

Chinese		絕 (absolutely, by no means, cut short, to disappear, to vanish), 绝种 (Extinction), 已滅 . (various references)

Czech		vyhynulý, vyhaslý (burnt-out, dead, glazed). (various references)

Danish		uddoed organisme (extinct organism). (various references)

Dutch		uitgestorven organisme (extinct organism). (various references)

Farsi		منقرض , منسوخه , معدوم (Nil), مرده (Dead, Defunct, Exanimate, Vapid), نایاب , تمام شده (Defunct, Through), خاموش شده , ازبین رفته (Defunct). (various references)

Finnish		sukupuuttoon kuollut. (various references)

French		mort (exit), disparu, éteint. (various references)

German		erloschen. (various references)

Greek		σβησμένοσ (dead), εκλιπών (vestigial), εξαφανισμένοσ, εξαλειμμένοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		כבוי (extinction, extinguished, extinguishing), נכחד (forgotten, remote). (various references)

Hungarian		kihalt (defunct), kialudt (dormant), nem hatályos, letűnt (ci-devant, records of past ages, withered), elhamvadt. (various references)

Indonesian		padam. (various references)

Italian		estinto (deceased, extinguished), spento (dead, dull, erased, faded, muffled, off, out, sad, switched off, turned off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		廃止された . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はいしされた. (various references)

Korean		다하는. (various references)

Manx		mooghit (drowned, jammed, quenched, sunk, suppressed), ass ymmyd (broken down, disused, obsolete), anvio (defunct, inanimate). (various references)

Norwegian		utdødd, sloknet. (various references)

Pig Latin		extinctay.(various references)

Portuguese		extinto (out), revogado, morto (cadaver, corpse, deceased, departed, lifeless, stone-dead), liquidado (finished, sold out, washed-up), apagado (out). (various references)

Romanian		stins (departed, dim, extinguished, faded, faint, ghastly, out, sickly, withered), mort (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, dead beat, deceased, defunct, dummy, exanimate, gone, in the dust, lifeless), dispãrut (departed, heterogeneous, missing, perished, the late). (various references)

Russian		вышедший из употребления (dated, obsolete, out of use), вымерший;потухший, вымерший, потухший. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ugašen, mrtav (dead, deceased, defunct), izumro (sloughy). (various references)

Spanish		extinguido (extinguished). (various references)

Swedish		utdöd. (various references)

Thai		สูญพันธุ์. (various references)

Turkish		yok olmuş (gone), varisi olmayan, tükenmiş (at an end, distressed, drained, drawn, exhausted, finished, played out, run down, stale, used up), soyu tükenmiş, sönmüş (dead, extinguished, gone out, out, put out), sönük (dead pan, dim, extinguished, faint, lifeless, spiritless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), nesli tükenmiş. (various references)

Turkmen		sцnen, цзen. (various references)

Ukrainian		щезлий, вимерлий (defunct), потухлий. (various references)

Vietnamese		tuyệt chủng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Job Chapter 17, Verse 1
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Olekomai pneumati feromenoV deomai de tafhV kai ou tugcanw
Latin	405	Vulgate	Spiritus meus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur et solum mihi superest sepulchrum
Jacobean English	1611	King James	My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Job Chapter 17, Verse 1
Albanian	"Fryma ime u copëtua, ditët po më shuhen, varri po më pret.
Cebuano	¶ Ang akong espiritu maluya na, nahurot na ang akong mga adlaw, Ang lubnganan andam na alang kanako.
Croatian	Daha mi nestaje, gasnu moji dani i za mene veæ se skupljaju grobari.
Danish	Brudt er min Ånd, mine Dage slukt, og Gravene venter mig;
Dutch	Mijn geest is verdorven, mijn dagen worden uitgeblust, de graven zijn voor mij.
Finnish	"Minun henkeni on rikki raastettu, minun päiväni sammuvat, kalmisto on minun osani.
French	Mon souffle se perd, Mes jours s`éteignent, Le sépulcre m`attend.
German	Mein Odem ist schwach, und meine Tage sind abgekürzt; das Grab ist da.
Haitian Creole	¶ Souf mwen prèt pou koupe. Mwen pa lwen mouri. Se pou simityè ase mwen bon.
Hungarian	Még mindig csúfot ûznek belõlem! Szemem az õ patvarkodásuk között virraszt.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ajalku sudah dekat, hampir putuslah napasku; hanyalah kuburan yang tinggal bagiku.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bahwa nyawaku sudah rusak, segala hariku sudah dipadamkan, hanya kubur juga yang tinggal bagiku.
Italian	Il mio spirito vien meno, i miei giorni si spengono; non c'è per me che la tomba!
Maori	¶ Kua pau toku manawa, moti rawa oku ra, kua rite te urupa moku.
Norwegian	Min ånd* er brutt, mine dager utslukket; bare graver har jeg for mig. <* livskraft.>
Portuguese	O meu espírito está quebrantado, os meus dias se extinguem, a sepultura me está preparada!
Rumanian	Mi se pierde suflarea, mi se sting zilele, mq awteaptq mormkntul.
Russian	дЩИБОЙЕ НПЕ ПУМБВЕМП; ДОЙ НПЙ ХЗБУБАФ; ЗТПВЩ РТЕДП НОПА.
Spanish	Mi espíritu está atribulado; mis días se extinguen. El sepulcro está preparado para mí.
Swedish	Job avslutar sitt svar på Elifas' andra tal, i det han beder till Gud om försvar mot vännerna. Själv väntar han sig intet annat än döden.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "extinct": extincted, extincting, extinction, extinctions, extinctive, extincts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Extinct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exdinct, extinect, extint, extynct. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "extinct" (pronounced iksti"ngkt)
6	-s t i" ng k t	distinct, indistinct.
4	-i" ng k t	blinked, interlinked, linked, succinct, winked.
3	-ng k t	adjunct, banked, blanked, cranked, debunked, defunct, dunked, flanked, flunked, franked, hoodwinked, instinct, junked, outflanked, plunked, precinct, ranked, sacrosanct, spanked, tanked, thanked, yanked.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-t-t-x"
	-2 letters: tinct, xenic.
	-3 letters: cent, cine, cite, etic, exit, nett, next, nice, nite, nixe, tent, text, tine, tint.
	-4 letters: ice, net, nit, nix, ten, tet, tic, tie, tin.
	-5 letters: en, et, ex, in, it, ne, ti, xi.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-t-t-x"
	+1 letter: excitant, extincts.
	+2 letters: excitants, extincted.
	+3 letters: coexistent, detoxicant, excitation, excitement, extincting, extinction, extinctive, extracting, extraction, intoxicate.
	+4 letters: detoxicants, excitations, excitements, expectation, extinctions, extractions, extricating, extrication, intoxicated, intoxicates.
	+5 letters: detoxicating, detoxication, exanthematic, excogitating, excogitation, exercitation, expectations, extrications, inexactitude, toxigenicity.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
extinct animal	290	dodo extinct	5
extinct bird	56	extinct whale	5
extinct species	49	extinct animal species	5
extinct	39	bird dodo extinct	4
bird extinct in texas	23	animal extinct that	4
picture of extinct animal	15	extinct list species	4
bird extinct texas	14	bird extinct flightless	3
banana extinct	12	animal cloning extinct	3
animal endangered extinct	11	banana extinct going	3
extinct mammal	10	cousin extinct kiwi	3
animal extinct list	10	bird extinct tennessee that	3
extinct plant	8	endangered extinct species	3
dinosaur extinct	7	extinct insect	3
animal australian extinct	6	big bird extinct	2
extinct fish	6	animal extinct pic	2
cousin extinct kiwis	6	attraction extinct	2
extinct tiger	6	breed dog extinct	2
animal extinct forest rain	5	animal extinct photo	2
extinct volcano	5	extinct going species	2
extinct language	5	became dinosaur extinct	2
extinct shark	5	animal extinct information	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Extinct

Definition: Extinct

Extinct

Adjective

Synonyms: Extinct

Synonyms within Context: Extinct

Death

Destruction

Inexistence

The Past

Crosswords: Extinct

Modern Usage: Extinct

Screenplays

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Extinct

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Image Slideshow: Extinct

Photos: Extinct

Illustrations: Extinct

Computer Images: Extinct

Photo Album: Extinct

Use in Literature: Extinct

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Extinct

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Extinct

Jack Hanna

Speeches: Extinct

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Extinct

Expressions: Extinct

Frequency of Internet Expressions: Extinct

Modern Translation: Extinct

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Bible Trace: Extinct

Matched Bible Translations: Extinct

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Rhyming with "Extinct"

Anagrams: Extinct

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