extant

1 having being at the present time a celebrated author who is generally regarded as America's greatest novelist extant Synonyms of extant alive, around, existent, existing, living Words Related to extant active, busy, flourishing, functioning, operating, working Near Antonyms of extant defunct, destroyed, exterminated, kaput (also kaputt); departed, gone, lost; nonexistent; idle, inactive, inert Antonyms of extant dead, extinct, nonextant

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 Synonyms of extant current, present, immediate, instant, ongoing, present-dayWords Related to extant contemporary, mod, modern, modernistic, new, newfangled, new-fashioned, recent, red-hot, space-age, supermodern, ultramodern, up-to-date; being, breathing, existent, existing, livingNear Antonyms of extant coming, future, unborn; completed, concluded, done, ended, finished, over, terminated, through, up; ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, dated, fusty, musty, noncontemporary, obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old-time, out-of-date, outworn, passé; ago, bygone, erstwhile, former, past