Entry Word: extant

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having being at the present time <a celebrated author who is generally regarded as Americaʼs greatest novelist extant>

Synonyms alive, existent, existing, living

Related Words active, busy, flourishing, functioning, operating, working

Near Antonyms defunct, destroyed, exterminated; departed, gone, lost; nonexistent; idle, inactive, inert

Antonyms dead, extinct

2 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> — see present 1