extinct
/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/
Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants; Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched
Meanings
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Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants
That species is already extinct.
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Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched
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put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed — Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.
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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
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Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting
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Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-liferare
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dead; also, permanently separated from others — Of a personrare