Adjective: extinctual
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more extinctual |
| Superlative | most extinctual |
Sample Sentences
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I mourn because I would not kill, knowing killing is suffering a snarling, extinctual end; and I mourn that something weak, nameless — inside me — allows this lie of color life in my blood and bone. [1968, Free Lance Press, The Free Lance, Volume 4]
Adjectives inflected like extinctual
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From extinct + -ual.