still
Meaning of still
- A period of calm or silence.
the still of the night
- A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
- A resident of the Falkland Islands.
- A steep hill or ascent.
- Not moving; calm.
Still waters run deep.
- Not effervescing; not sparkling.
still water; still wines
- Uttering no sound; silent.
- Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
- Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
- Constant; continual.
- Without motion.
They stood still until the guard was out of sight.
- (aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
- (degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller.
- Nevertheless.
I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
- Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
- (extensive) Even, yet.
Some dogs howl, more yelp, still more bark.
- A device for distilling liquids.
- (catering) a large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
- (catering) the area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
- A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
- To calm down, to quiet
to still the raging sea
- To trickle, drip.
- To cause to fall by drops.
- To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
Information about still
- The plural form of still is: stills.
- Languages in which still is used:
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Hyphenation of still
still
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- still is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
still synonyms
Meaning inactive:
Meaning silent:
Meaning placid:
placid, quiet, tranquil, smooth, unruffled
Meaning noneffervescent:
Meaning hush:
hush, stillness, quieten, silence
Meaning distillery:
Meaning calm:
calm, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, quieten, lull
Meaning allay:
Meaning however:
however, nevertheless, withal, yet, nonetheless, notwithstanding
Meaning even:
Meaning :
respite, rest, tranquility, Benny, Kelper, hushed, incessant, ongoing, unremitting, flat, uneffervescent, fixed, inert, stagnant, stationary, unmoving, noiseless, consistently, invariably, uniformly, though, motionlessly, stockishly, becalm, quell
Translation of still
- Italian: finora, sinora, ancora, tuttavia, eppure, ciononostante, distillatore, posa, fotogramma, tuttora, immobile
- French: encore, aussi, pourtant, cependant, néanmoins, toutefois, nonobstant, photo, photographie, cliché, toujours, immobile
- Spanish: todavía, más, bis, destilador, destiladera, foto, fotograma, inmóvil, parado, aún
- Portuguese: ainda, também, contudo, porém, todavia, imóvel
- German: noch, jedoch, nichtsdestotrotz, dennoch, trotzdem, gleichwohl, dessenungeachtet, nichtsdestoweniger, nichtsdestominder, doch, still
Anagrams of still
Words that rhyme with still
Till, till, subtill, retill, theretill, wheretill, intill, poyntill, untill, rototill, uptill, Hartill, entortill, intertill, overtill, Estill, Hopestill, Still, bestill, distill, exstill, finestill, instill, preinstill, redistill, reinstill, semistill, standstill, stockstill, unstill, battill, extill