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inextinct

inextinct adjective: not quenched; not extinct, still lively.

Adjective

inextinct (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not quenched; not extinct, still lively.
    • Yet beauty inextinct may charm1876, Herman Melville, “(please specify the canto or chapter)”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960...

Origin of inextinct

From Latin inextinctus, inexstinctus. See extinct.

Questions about inextinct

What does inextinct mean?
Inextinct means not quenched; not extinct, still lively.
What part of speech is inextinct?
Inextinct is an adjective.

Words near inextinct in the dictionary

  1. inextensile
  2. inextension
  3. inextensional
  4. inextensive
  5. inexterminable
  6. inextinct
  7. inextinguible
  8. inextinguishability
  9. inextinguishable
  10. inextinguishableness
  11. inextinguishably

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