extinctとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/, /ɛkˈstɪŋkt/
• 韻: -ɪŋkt

形容詞

extinct (not comparable)

1. (dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)

   Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.

2. No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.

   The title became extinct when the last baron died.

   Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 5, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 275:

     Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system writes in there as two words but therein as one word might be taken as suggesting that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as thereby.

3. No longer in existence; having died out.

   The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

4. (volcanology) No longer actively erupting.

   Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.

同意語

• (no longer used): See also Thesaurus:obsolete
• (having died out): See also Thesaurus:inexistent
• (volcanology: no longer erupting): dead

反意語

• (no longer alight): burning
• (having died out): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
• (volcanology: no longer erupting): active, dormant

関連する語

• extinction
• extinctive
• extinguish
• distinct

Further reading

• extinct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• extinct in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

動詞

extinct (三人称単数 現在形 extincts, 現在分詞 extincting, 過去形および過去分詞形 extincted)

1. (transitive) To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.