extinct
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(archaic, not comparable)Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking.
- 2.
(figuratively, not comparable)Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
- 3.
(figuratively, not comparable)Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.
Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
The title became extinct when the last baron died.
Đồng nghĩa: anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, defunct, desuete, discontinued, disused, dootsie, elderly, extinct, expired, fossilized, Havishamesque, hoary, idle, Miss Havishamesque, mouldy, obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old school, outdated, outmoded, out of date, out of fashion, outworn, parachronistic, passé, primitive, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless
- 4.
(figuratively, not comparable)Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.
Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
Đồng nghĩa: absent, beingless, extinct, inessential, inexistent, nonexistent, null, zilch
- 5.
(figuratively, not comparable)Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
They found the sites of extinct geysers.
Đồng nghĩa: asleep, at rest, blessed, cadaverous, clay-cold, deceased, resting, decomposed, defunct, departed, expired, extinct, fey, gone, good, inanimate, inert, kaput, killed, late, lifeless, living impaired, low, no longer with us, no more, perished, reposing, six feet deep, six feet under, stiff, unalive, unalived, wasted, whilom, with God
- 6.
(figuratively, not comparable)Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
- 7.
(figuratively, not comparable, obsolete)Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
Động từ
verb- 1.
Synonym of extinguish.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(obsolete, transitive, uncountable)Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).
Đồng nghĩa: extinction
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ine h₁éǵʰsine-pro From Late Middle English extinct (eliminated, eradicated, extinguished), from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus (extinguished, quenched; destroyed, killed; made extinct), the perfect passive participles of extinguō, exstinguō, from ex- + stinguō (to extinguish, put out, quench) (from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (to push)).