Antonyms of adj extinct
3 senses of extinct
Sense 1
extinct (vs. extant), nonextant -- (no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs")
extant (vs. extinct) -- (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd)
=> living -- (still in active use; "a living language")
=> surviving, living -- (still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania")
Sense 2
extinct (vs. active) -- ((of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano")
active (vs. extinct) -- ((of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting)
=> alive, live -- (capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive")
Sense 3
extinct, out (predicate) -- (being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out")
INDIRECT (VIA dead) -> live -- (exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play")
Similarity of adj extinct
3 senses of extinct
Sense 1
extinct (vs. extant), nonextant -- (no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs")
=> dead -- (not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language")
Also See-> nonexistent#1
Sense 2
extinct (vs. active) -- ((of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano")
=> dead -- (physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range")
Sense 3
extinct, out (predicate) -- (being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out")
=> dead (vs. live) -- (not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead")