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Synonyms for extinct

The synonym for extinct recorded in this bank is out, in the sense "being out or having grown cold". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for extinct

outadjective, in the sense "being out or having grown cold"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for extinct.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

being out or having grown cold

The campfire was extinct by the time we returned.

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The true synonym

out

Same sentence, swapped: The campfire was out by the time we returned.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where extinct stands in the sentence above.

expired
departed
terminated

Where extinct turns up in the game

extinct is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play extinct

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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