extinctionist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An advocate of extinctionism.
    — As to whether animals that cannot be domesticated are worth preserving is a question I will not discuss here. But there is this much to be said, in opposition to the extinctionist, that wild life, placed on the lowest basis, has certainly a commercial value which should not be overlooked.
  2. A player who plays a roguelike game with the additional challenge of killing all creatures to extinction.
    — What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to extinctionism.
    — Hamas has embraced the nihilism of the suicide bomber, of rockets fired blindly into towns, and the nihilism of the extinctionist policy towards Israel.

词形变化

extinctionists plural more extinctionist comparative most extinctionist superlative

词源

词源 1
From extinction + -ist.
词源 2
From extinction + -ist.
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