noun
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A period of calm or silence.
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the still of the night
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A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
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A resident of the Falkland Islands.
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A steep hill or ascent.
adjective
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Not moving; calm.
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Still waters run deep.
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Not effervescing; not sparkling.
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still water; still wines
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Uttering no sound; silent.
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Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
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Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
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Constant; continual.
adverb
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Without motion.
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They stood still until the guard was out of sight.
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(aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
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Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
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(degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
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Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller.
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Nevertheless.
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I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
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Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
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(extensive) Even, yet.
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Some dogs howl, more yelp, still more bark.
Examples of still in a Sentence
It is still a famous school.
When they turned around, Alex was still on the horse.
She still held Jonathan's hand.
In fact, it was ludicrous - but it still hurt.
When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast.
The throng stood still and waited.
We accept that they don't, but we still want to feel welcome.
People were still alive who knew the Wright brothers.
But you're still not comfortable with the decision, are you?
We can still make plenty of progress.
Then Psammeticus tried still another plan.
Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her husband.
I still found more difficulty in mastering problems in mathematics than I did in any other of my studies.
He looked back and saw the innkeeper still standing by the door.
Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend in amazement.
A trip back to the house to drop off the eggs revealed a house still silent.
They were home but still playing love tag at night.
His mother and his wife are still there.
In the future, nations still will have differences.
I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers.
I felt it, and still remark it almost daily in my walks, for by it hangs the history of a family.
He thinks I am still a child.
The nearest cottage was still some distance away.
You can know everything in the world and still make bad decisions.
Still, I don't care to drag any passengers.
The next morning she woke, still in her clothing.
The clay was still hidden.
Still, she didn't feel uncomfortable.
But he was still headstrong and ill-tempered; and he was often in trouble with the other sailors.
By the 1780s, though the procedure was certainly better than nothing, it still had a fair number of problems.
We have still six hundred quarters left, he inquired.
He still has his labor to sell and can go get a new job.
I outline forty-five different ways this will happen—surely enough that even if you don't agree with them all, you will still have plenty of reason to be optimistic.
This is that portion, also, where in the spring, the ice being warmed by the heat of the sun reflected from the bottom, and also transmitted through the earth, melts first and forms a narrow canal about the still frozen middle.
Though it was unintelligible why he had told it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably ending Pierre's unpleasant and unamiable outburst.
Still, hiding from them wasn't going to solve anything - especially for his sisters.
You can still smell the lamp kerosene.
Is he still in jail?
He lay quite still till the animal was very near.
The name of Arion is still remembered as that of a most wonderful musician.
In other words, the average person will make more money, pay a higher percentage as taxes, but still bring home vastly more than before.
At times, we still do this today.
Alondra was still a big question mark, but her gut said no to that idea too.
Connie stammered out a prim salutation, still staring at him, and Lisa blushed at Giddon's obvious amusement.
Quinn, surprised we were still clinging to our project, slumped down in an easy chair, journals in hand.
Instead, I finished it, while still holding on to my beloved tee shirt.
It still makes me cry when I think of Annie, even after fifteen years.
He stood very still and waited.
Hundreds of thousands of cases were still, of course, in the rest of the world even three decades after Salk's breakthrough.
Still others argue for a system of government price supports, incentives, and subsidies, as is found in the United States and Europe.