unextinct
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From un- + extinct (adjective).
Adjective
[edit]unextinct (not comparable)
- Not extinct; still living.
- 1902, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Luella Miller:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]unextinct (third-person singular simple present unextincts, present participle unextincting, simple past and past participle unextincted)
- To make not extinct; especially, to return an extinct species to existence.
- Synonym: de-extinct
- 2007, Richard Greene, 'Shroom!, page 428:
- Removing graffiti.
Unextincting the dodo bird.
- 2012, Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot:
- 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.
- 2017, Padraic Fogarty, Whittled Away:
- The good news is that, with the exception of the giant auk which will only return if genetic cloning can find a way to 'unextinct' it, there are ways of getting our wildlife out of the intensive care unit.