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unextinct

unextinct adjective: not extinct; still living.

Adjective

unextinct (not comparable)

  1. Not extinct; still living.
    • There was only one person in the village who had actually known Luella Miller. That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth.1902, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Luella Miller
    Synonyms:
    extant

Verb

unextinct (third-person singular simple present unextincts, present participle unextincting, simple past and past participle unextincted)

  1. (transitive) To make not extinct; especially, to return an extinct species to existence.
    • Removing graffiti.
      Unextincting the dodo bird.2007, Richard Greene, 'Shroom!, page 428
    • He was a resequenced neanderthal named Stiggins and soon to be, I assumed, divisional head of SO-13, the department that policed all unextincted creatures.2012, Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot
    Synonyms:
    de-extinct
  2. To correct, or otherwise account for the extinction of an astronomical object.

Synonyms of unextinct

Forms of unextinct

third-person singular presentunextincts
present participleunextincting
past participleunextincted
pastunextincted

Origin of unextinct

From un- + extinct (adjective).

From un- + extinct (verb).

Questions about unextinct

What does unextinct mean?
Unextinct means not extinct; still living.
What part of speech is unextinct?
Unextinct can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unextinct in the dictionary

  1. unextenuating
  2. unexterminable
  3. unexterminated
  4. unexternalised
  5. unexternalized
  6. unextinct
  7. unextincted
  8. unextincting
  9. unextinction
  10. unextincts
  11. unextinguishable

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