extinctive

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adjective

Tending or serving to extinguish, or make extinct.

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Meanings

adjectiveextinctive (comparative more extinctive, superlative most extinctive)

comparative more extinctive · superlative most extinctive

  1. Tending or serving to extinguish, or make extinct.

    Even with mild degrees of anxiety the ineffectiveness of the extinctive mechanism is striking.

    1958, Joseph Wolpe, Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition

Origin

From extinct + -ive.

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APA

extinctive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extinctive

MLA

“extinctive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extinctive. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extinctive,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extinctive.

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