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

1. adjective. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
2. adjective. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
3. transitive verb. To cause to be extinct.
4. adjective. (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive

   "an extinct volcano"

5. adjective. being out or having grown cold

   "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"

   "the fire is out"

   Synonyms: out

6. adjective. no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives

   "an extinct species of fish"

   "an extinct royal family"

   Synonyms: nonextant

Synonyms

out, nonextant

Common word forms

extincts, extincted, extincting

Words from these letters

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