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单词 extant
释义

extant

adjective

ex·​tant ˈek-stənt How to pronounce extant (audio)
ek-ˈstant,
ˈek-ˌstant How to pronounce extant (audio)
1
a
: currently or actually existing
the most charming writer extant G. W. Johnson
b
: still existing : not destroyed or lost
extant manuscripts
2
archaic : standing out or above

Synonyms

  • alive
  • around
  • existent
  • existing
  • living
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Example Sentences

There is, he reports, no extant copy of the Super Bowl I television broadcast; nobody bothered to keep the tapes. Joe Queenan, New York Times Book Review, 1 Feb. 2009 First produced in the spring of 472 BC, Persians is noteworthy in the corpus of the thirty-two extant Greek tragedies in that it is the only classical Greek drama that dramatizes an actual historical event. Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Review, 21 Sept. 2006 [George] Lucas' brain teemed with plots and characters, exotic creatures, worlds to be spun out of the words and sketches in his notebooks. Also, by numbering the extant episodes IV, V and VI, he was implicitly promising a prequel trilogy … Richard Corliss, Time, 9 May 2005 There are few extant records from that period. one of the oldest buildings still extant
Recent Examples on the Web But the entire record of Joan’s trial in 1431 is extant. WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022 Sahelanthropus, an extant human, a chimpanzee and a gorilla (in posterior view). Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022 Films — whether analog or digital — are hard to suppress when there is an extant print and waiting audience. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2022 Just two extant photos of the man exist, and very little firsthand information. Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 31 July 2022 Then, too, his book gives much less space to the various extant kinds of traditional talk therapy. Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022 Haidt acknowledges that the extant literature on social media’s effects is large and complex, and that there is something in it for everyone. The New Yorker, 3 June 2022 Pianist Glenn Kramer founded AmateurPianists, which grew out of a still-extant meetup group, in 2011. David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2022 The front probably won’t make any additional southward progress before the next pulse of arriving warmth scours out any extant temperature air. Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin exstant-, exstans, present participle of exstare to stand out, be in existence, from ex- + stare to stand — more at stand

First Known Use

1545, in the meaning defined at sense 2

extant

adjective

1
as in existing
having being at the present time a celebrated author who is generally regarded as America's greatest novelist extant

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • existing
  • existent
  • living
  • around
  • operating
  • active
  • alive
  • functioning
  • working
  • busy
  • flourishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • extinct
  • dead
  • destroyed
  • defunct
  • gone
  • nonextant
  • nonexistent
  • departed
  • lost
  • exterminated
  • inactive
  • inert
  • kaput
  • idle
  • kaputt
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2
as in current
existing or in progress right now when people envisage the future, they often base their predictions on the assumption that extant trends will continue indefinitely

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • current
  • present
  • existing
  • ongoing
  • existent
  • recent
  • modern
  • contemporary
  • immediate
  • new
  • present-day
  • instant
  • newfangled
  • being
  • modernistic
  • ultramodern
  • up-to-date
  • breathing
  • supermodern
  • mod
  • living
  • new-fashioned
  • space-age
  • red-hot

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • future
  • unborn
  • ancient
  • coming
  • over
  • terminated
  • old
  • archaic
  • through
  • completed
  • finished
  • obsolete
  • up
  • antiquated
  • antediluvian
  • ended
  • concluded
  • antique
  • done
  • past
  • dated
  • outworn
  • former
  • fusty
  • erstwhile
  • bygone
  • musty
  • old-time
  • noncontemporary
  • oldfangled
  • out-of-date
  • passé
  • ago
  • old-fashioned
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