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extinction - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | extinction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dying out |
| Synonyms: | death, destruction, elimination, annihilation, end of life, no life, obsolescence, thing of the past |
| Main Entry: | curtains |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the end |
| Synonyms: | bitter end, death, exit, extinction, end of life, end of the line, lights out, taps |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking down, collapse |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, atrophy, blight, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decadence, decline, decomposition, decrease, decrepitude, degeneracy, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, dying, extinction, fading, failing, mortification, rot, rotting, ruin, rust, withering, caries, degeneration, gangrene, impairment, perishing, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, ruination, senescence, spoilage, spoilation, wasting, wasting away |
| Antonyms: | development, flourish, growth, improvement, strength, germination, ripening, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | demise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, usually death |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination |
| Notes: | demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | destruction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demolition, devastation |
| Synonyms: | abolition, bane, carnage, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extinction, extirpation, havoc, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ruin, slaughter, subversion, undoing, wreckage, wrecking, abolishing, annihilation, assassinating, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, extermination, extinguishing, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, ravaging, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaying, subjugation, subverting |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration |
| Main Entry: | eclipse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shadowing of the sun |
| Synonyms: | concealment, decline, diminution, extinction, shroud, veil, darkening, dimming, extinguishment, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, penumbra, shading |
| Main Entry: | holocaust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | widespread destruction |
| Synonyms: | carnage, catastrophe, devastation, extinction, genocide, inferno, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, annihilation, extermination, immolation |
| Main Entry: | ruin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation of devastation |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, bankruptcy, bath, breakdown, collapse, confusion, crash, crumbling, damage, decay, defeat, degeneracy, demolition, destitution, destruction, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, extinction, failure, fall, havoc, loss, nemesis, overthrow, subversion, undoing, waste, waterloo, wreck, wreckage, crackup, degeneration, insolvency, ruination, skids, the end |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation, development, growth |
| Main Entry: | extirpation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extermination |
| Synonyms: | destruction, extinction, annihilation |
| Main Entry: | nothing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | aught, bagatelle, blank, cipher, crumb, extinction, naught, nix, nobody, nonentity, nothingness, nullity, oblivion, scratch, trifle, void, wind, zero, zilch, zip, annihilation, diddly, duck egg, fly speck, goose egg, insignificancy, nihility, no thing, nonbeing, nonexistence, not anything, nought, obliteration, shutout, zippo, zot |
| Antonyms: | something |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
| Synonyms: | bareness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitude, waste, wreck, bleakness, forlornness, solitariness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | civilization |
| Main Entry: | mortality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | bloodshed, carnage, destruction, dying, extinction, fatality, killing, deadliness, lethality, loss of life |
| Antonyms: | birth, life |
| Main Entry: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, demise, disappearance, dismissal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination, defunction, disbandment, discontinuation, dispersal, liquefaction |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, construction, start |
| Main Entry: | nothing/nothingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, nonexistence |
| Synonyms: | aught, blank, cipher, extinction, naught, nobody, nonentity, nullity, oblivion, trifle, void, wind*, zero*, zilch*, zip, annihilation, fly speck, insignificancy, nihility, nonbeing, not anything, nought, obliteration, shutout |
| Antonyms: | capacity, fullness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oblivion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nothingness, obscurity |
| Synonyms: | blackness, darkness, eclipse, emptiness, extinction, limbo, nirvana*, nothing, nullity, void, nihility, nonexistence, nowhere, out there |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death, destruction |
| Synonyms: | demise, dissolution, doom, expiration, extinction, finish, passing, ruin, annihilation, extermination, ruination |
| Antonyms: | birth, construction, creation |
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