still
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪl/
ipa: [stɪɫ]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [stɪo̯]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [stɪʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: stiller
form: more still
form: stillest
form: most still
form: stil
form: stille
form: styll
form: stylle
Etymology: From Middle English stille (“motionless, stationary”), from Old English stille (“still, quiet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”). Cognate with Scots stil (“still”), Saterland Frisian stil (“motionless, calm, quiet”), West Frisian stil (“quiet, still”), Dutch stil (“quiet, silent, still”), Low German still (“quiet, silent, still”), German still (“still, quiet, tranquil, silent”), Swedish stilla (“quiet, silent, peaceful”), Icelandic stilltur (“set, quiet, calm, still”). Related to stall.
(noun: Falkland Islander): Military slang, short for still a Benny, since the military had been instructed not to refer to the islanders by the derogatory term Benny (which see).
Senses: examples: text: Sit there and stay still!
text: Still waters run deep.
synonyms: word: fixed
word: stationary
word: unmoving
word: at rest
word: dull
word: impassive
word: inanimate
word: lifeless
word: motionless
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: stationary
word: still
word: stock-still
word: torpid
word: unmoved
word: unmoving
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Not moving; calm.
examples: text: still water; still wines
synonyms: word: flat
word: uneffervescent
word: ineffervescent
word: noneffervescent
word: nonsparkling
word: still
word: uneffervescent
word: ungassy
word: unfizzy
glosses: Not effervescing; not sparkling.
examples: text: The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still.
ref: c. 1711, Joseph Addison, How are thy Servants blest, O Lord!:
synonyms: word: noiseless
word: soundless
word: dumb
word: silent
word: silential
word: still
word: mute
word: noiseless
word: soundless
word: quiet
glosses: Uttering no sound; silent.
examples: text: To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion.
ref: 2007 January 3, Gerry Geronimo, “Unwanted weed starts to sprout from a wayward ponencia”, in Manila Standard, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2011:
glosses: Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
examples: text: […] a still small voice.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 19:12:
synonyms: word: hushed
word: tranquil
word: faint
word: hushed
word: low
word: muffled
word: quiet
word: quiet as a grave
word: quiet as a mouse
word: quiet as a church mouse
word: soft
word: still
word: stifled
word: tranquil
glosses: Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
examples: text: By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: […] A lifelong tract of time reveal’d;
⁠The fruitful hours of still increase;
⁠Days order’d in a wealthy peace,
And those five years its richest field.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 68:
synonyms: word: incessant
word: ongoing
word: unremitting
word: amaranthine
word: ceaseless
word: constant
word: continual
word: continuate
word: continuous
word: dreich
raw_tags: of rain
word: endless
word: eternal
word: everlasting
word: extended
word: incessant
word: infinite
word: never-ending
word: nonstop
word: ongoing
word: perpetual
word: persistent
word: relentless
word: steady
word: still
word: termless
word: unbroken
word: unceasing
word: unending
word: unintermitted
word: uninterrupted
word: unremitting
word: lasting
word: permanent
word: uniform
glosses: Constant; continual.
examples: text: a still spore
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Dormant.
Derived terms: be still my beating heart
be still my heart
digital still camera
hold still
sit still
stand still
still alarm
still as a stock
stillbirth
stillborn
still frame
still-hunt
still life
stillness
still water runs deep
still waters
still waters run deep
still wine
stock-still
stone-still
unstill