Extinction
Extinction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.
Trial and extinction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trial" instead a noun "Extinction".
Nearby Word: extinct
Trial
Trial noun - A test of faith, patience, or strength.
Extinction and trial are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Extinction" instead a noun "Trial".
Nearby Word: triable
How words are described
| similar | similar extinction | similar trial |
| actual | actual extinction | actual trial |
| entire | entire extinction | entire trial |
| great | great extinction | great trial |
| Other adjectives: early, major, final, inevitable, subsequent, attempted. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- In the Superman storyline The Trial of Superman, Superman's brought to a tribunal to be judged in a case of Sins of Our Fathers for the near extinction of the Kryptonian race.
- In the modern world, killing enemies other than in the heat of combat or after a trial is considered a war crime, and animals and plants are protected by law in most places from deliberate extinction, but in the past this was not the case.
Source: Genocide Dilemma -
In The Trial of Superman saga, Superman is put on trial by an alien tribunal because one of his ancestors inadvertently caused the virtual extinction of the Kryptonian race by making them biologically bound to Krypton and thus unable to leave the planet.
Source: Sins of Our Fathers
Cite this Source
Trial and Extinction. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/extinction/trial
Extinction & Trial. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/extinction/trial>.
Trial or Extinction. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/extinction/trial.
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