Dictionary Entry
extinct
extinct is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
- 2adjective
Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to be extinct.
- 4adjective
(of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive
"an extinct volcano"
- 5adjective
being out or having grown cold
"threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"
"the fire is out"
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- 6adjective
no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
"an extinct species of fish"
"an extinct royal family"
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