still

Meanings

Adjective

• Not moving; calm.
• Not effervescing; not sparkling.
• Uttering no sound; silent.
• Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
• Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
• Constant; continual.

Adverb

• Without motion.
• Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
• To an even greater degree.
• Nevertheless.
• Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
• Even, yet.

Noun

• A period of calm or silence.
• A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
• A resident of the Falkland Islands.
• A device for distilling liquids.
• A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
• The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
• A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.

Verb

• To calm down, to quiet.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• akinetically, motionlessly, stock still, stockishly
• yet
• yet, even
• lull, rest, respite; quiet, tranquility
• Benny, Falklander, Kelper

Origin

• From Middle English stille ("motionless, stationary"), from Old English stille ("still, quiet, calm; without motion, at rest, not moving from a place, not disturbed; moving little or gently; silent; not loud; secret; unchanging, undisturbed, stable, fixed; not vehement, gentle"), from Proto-West Germanic *stillī ("quiet, still"), 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, still"), German still ("still, quiet, tranquil, silent"), Swedish stilla ("quiet, silent, peaceful"), Icelandic stilltur ("set, quiet, calm, still"). Related to stall.
• 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).
• Via Middle English, ultimately from Latin stilla.
• From Old English stillan.
• Aphetic form of distil, or from Latin stillare.