🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

अविल्प्त

Native Script:हिंदी देवनागरी

Pronunciation / Transliteration: avilpta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unextinct/ˌʌn.ɪkˈstɪŋkt/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यह दुर्लभ प्रजाति अभी भी अविल्प्त है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not extinct; still existing, active, or surviving rather than having died out.

    "Biologists were thrilled to discover that the isolated population of insects remained unextinct."
  2. 2

    Of a flame, fire, or quality: not having been quenched or extinguished; still burning or persisting.

    "An unextinct flame flickered faintly in the hearth long after midnight."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the native English prefix 'un-' (meaning not) combined with 'extinct', which traces back to the Latin 'exstinctus', the past participle of 'exstinguere' (to quench, put out, or destroy). First emerging in early modern English print, it serves as a direct morphological negation denoting something that has not died out or ceased to exist.

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