Definitions for Extinct
ɪkˈstɪŋktex·tinct

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 3 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"

2. extinctadjective

   (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive

   "an extinct volcano"

3. extinct, out(p)adjective

   being out or having grown cold

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

GCIDERate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Extinctadjective

   Specifically: Once existing as a species but now having no living members; -- used of species of living organisms, especially of animals and plants; as, dinosaurs are now extinct; the dodo bird is extinct.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. extinctadjective

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

   Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.

2. extinctadjective

   No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.

   Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.

3. extinctadjective

   No longer in existence; having died out.

   The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

4. extinctadjective

   No longer actively erupting.

   Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.

5. Etymology: Recorded since 1432; from extinctus, the past participle of extinguere, corresponding to ex- + stinguere

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Extinctadjective

   Etymology: extinctus, Latin.

   1. Extinguished; quenched; put out.

   Their purple vengeance bath’d in gore retires,
   Her weapons blunted, and extinct her fires. Alexander Pope.

   2. At a stop; without progressive succession.

   The royal family is all extinct,
   And she who reigns bestows her crown on me. Dryden.

   The nobility are never likely to be extinct, because the greatest part of their titles descend to heirs general. Jonathan Swift.

   3. Abolished; out of force.

   A censure inflicted a jure continues, though such law be extinct, or the lawgiver removed from his office. John Ayliffe.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. extinct

   Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included.

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1. extinct

   Extinct refers to a species, genus, or larger group that has no living members; it means the complete disappearance or death of all individual organisms belonging to a particular species or group. This often happens when the species cannot adapt to changing environmental conditions or compete with other species for resources.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Extinctadjective

   extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano

2. Extinctadjective

   without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law

3. Extinctverb

   to cause to be extinct

4. Etymology: [L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of extinguere, exstinguere. See Extinguish.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Extinct

   Extinct is a British television series that aired on ITV, STV & UTV in 2006. It features eight celebrities highlighting the plight of some of the world's most endangered species and was presented by Zoë Ball and Sir Trevor McDonald. During the series, the public were asked to phone in and vote for which animal they wanted to receive 50% of the money raised through the phone votes, via the charity WWF. The winning animal got over £178,000 and the remaining seven shared £178,000. A sister programme called Extinct - The Quiz also aired at the same time.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Extinct

   eks-tingkt′, adj. put out: extinguished: no longer existing: dead.—adj. Extinct′ed, extinguished.—ns. Extincteur (eks-tang′tür, eks-tingk′tür—see Extinguisher); Extinc′tion, a quenching or destroying: destruction: suppression.—adj. Extinct′ive, tending to extinguish.—n. Extinct′ure (Shak.), extinction.

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Extinct in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Extinct in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Extinct in a Sentence

1. Terry Jones:

   Knowledge from the past can protect us in the present. When an animal or plant goes extinct, it isn't coming back. But mutations can re-occur or revert and viruses can mutate or spill over from the animal reservoir so there will always be another zoonosis( disease caused by viruses that jumped from animal hosts into human hosts).

2. Chris Stringer:

   This in turn may reinforce the idea that the successful spread of modern humans from Africa after about 60,000 years ago played at least a role, if not the most significant role, in the physical extinction of other forms of humans outside of Africa, however, at least some of those other forms of human did not go completely extinct, since their DNA lives on in us today through ancient interbreeding between the archaic and early modern populations. This leaves open the fascinating possibility that even floresiensis might have contributed some of its DNA to living groups in the region, if there was at least a short overlap between floresiensis and sapiens about 50,000 years ago.

3. Kenneth Feld:

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

4. 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.

5. Justice Antonin Scalia:

   [T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Extinct
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Extinct
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Extinct
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Extinct
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Extinct
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Extinct
9. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Extinct