Extant and Original

Extant

Extant adjective - Having being at the present time.

Original and extant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Original" instead an adjective "Extant".

Original

Original adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.

Extant and original are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Extant" instead an adjective "Original".

Both words in one sentence

  • Everyone to some extant still considers him the Idiot Hero the original Naruto was.
  • Makruk is how Chaturanga evolved in Southeast Asia, and is the closest extant game to the original.
  • Until 2011, the one extant translation of Stanisław Lem's Solaris into English was based on a French translation rather than the original Polish novel, and suffered accordingly.
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