extinct
adjective
[ ɪkˈstɪŋkt ]
• (of a species, family, or other group of animals or plants) having no living members; no longer in existence.
• "trilobites and dinosaurs are extinct"
Similar:
vanished,
lost,
died out,
dead,
defunct,
no longer existing,
no longer extant,
wiped out,
destroyed,
exterminated,
gone,
• (of a volcano) not having erupted in recorded history.
• "the islands are the remains of extinct volcanoes"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘no longer alight’): from Latin exstinct- ‘extinguished’, from the verb exstinguere (see extinguish).
