extinctive

English

Etymology

extinct +‎ -ive

Adjective

extinctive (comparative more extinctive, superlative most extinctive)

  1. Tending or serving to extinguish, or make extinct.
    • 1958, Joseph Wolpe, Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition‎:
      Even with mild degrees of anxiety the ineffectiveness of the extinctive mechanism is striking.
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