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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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, 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).
Alternative forms
Adjective
still (comparative stiller or more still, superlative stillest or most still)
- Not moving; calm.
Sit there and stay still!
Still waters run deep.
- Not effervescing; not sparkling.
still water; still wines
- Uttering no sound; silent.
c. 1711, Joseph Addison, How are thy Servants blest, O Lord!:The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still.
- (not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
2007 January 3, Gerry Geronimo, “Unwanted weed starts to sprout from a wayward ponencia”, in Manila Standard, archived from the original on 19 July 2011: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.
- Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
- (obsolete) Constant; continual.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
Synonyms
- (not moving): fixed, stationary, unmoving, static, inert, stagnant; see also Thesaurus:stationary or Thesaurus:immobile
- (not effervescing): flat, uneffervescent; see also Thesaurus:noneffervescent
- (uttering no sound): noiseless, soundless; see also Thesaurus:silent
- (having the same stated quality):
- (comparatively quiet): hushed, tranquil; see also Thesaurus:quiet
- (constant, continual): incessant, ongoing, unremitting; see also Thesaurus:continuous
Derived terms
Translations
not moving, calm
- Armenian: անշարժ (hy) (anšarž)
- Bashkir: хәрәкәтһеҙ (xərəkətheź), ҡуҙғалмаусан (quźğalmawsan), тик торған (tik torğan)
- Bulgarian: спокоен (bg) (spokoen), неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen)
- Catalan: quiet (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 靜止/静止 (zh) (jìngzhǐ)
- Czech: stálý (cs)
- Dutch: stil (nl)
- Estonian: paigal
- Finnish: liikkumaton (fi) (not moving), tyyni (fi) (calm)
- French: calme (fr), immobile (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: still (de), bewegungslos (de), ruhig (de)
- Greek: ακούνητος (el) (akoúnitos)
- Hungarian: nyugodt (hu), mozdulatlan (hu), álló (hu)
- Icelandic: kyrr (is)
- Irish: féithchiúin
- Italian: fermo (it), calmo (it), immobile (it), quieto (it), tranquillo (it)
- Japanese: (general) 止まっている (ja) (とまっている, tomatte iru), (formal) 静止した (seishi shita)
- Latin: immobilis (la)
- Luxembourgish: stëll
- Macedonian: мирен (miren)
- Manx: marroo, feagh, neuvio
- Maori: piropiro (of water), whakaroau, whakaroto (of pools of water), hū, marino (of the sea), pateko, whakapateko, whakapahoho
- Nepali: स्थिर (sthir)
- Northern Sami: snárri
- Norwegian: stille (no)
- Old English: stille
- Ottoman Turkish: ساكن (sakin)
- Persian: آرام (fa) (ârâm)
- Polish: nieruchomy (pl)
- Portuguese: imóvel (pt) m, parado (pt)
- Romanian: nemișcat (ro), imobil (ro)
- Russian: неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj)
- Sanskrit: स्थिर (sa) (sthira)
- Serbo-Croatian: nepomično (sh)
- Slovak: pokojný (sk) m, nehybný m, kľudný m
- Spanish: quieto (es)
- Swedish: stilla (sv)
- Thai: นิ่ง (th) (nîng)
- Venetian: cet (vec)
- Vietnamese: đứng (vi), đơ
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(of drinking water) not effervescent
uttering no sound, silent
having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
comparatively quiet or silent
Adverb
still (not comparable)
- 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.
We’ve seen most of the sights, but we are still visiting the museum.
I’m still not wise enough to answer that.
1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- (degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller / Harry is taller still.
- (conjunctive) Nevertheless.
I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
Yeah, but still...
- (archaic, poetic) Always; invariably; constantly; continuously.
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], lines 201–202:Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.
1661, Robert Boyle, “[Two Essays, Concerning the Unsuccessfulness of Experiments, Containing Divers Admonitions and Observations (Chiefly Chymical) Touching that Subject.] The Second Essay, of Un-succeeding Experiments.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; , 2nd edition, London: Henry Herringman , published 1669, →OCLC, page 78:[W]hereas many Chymiſts vvould be vaſtly rich, if they could ſtill do in great Quantities vvhat they have ſometimes done in little ones, many have undone themſelves by obſtinately attempting to make even real Experiments more gainful.
1712 January 2 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, December 22, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 255; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen his reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private.
- (extensive) Even, yet.
Some dogs howl; more yelp; still more bark.
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
- Alternative spelling of styll
2022, Moses McKenzie, An Olive Grove in Ends:'Yeah yeah, I'm good still, Stace,' I said.
2022 June 2, Gabrielle Wood, 16:17 from the start, in Teddy Nygh, director, PRU (1), episode 2 (TV), spoken by Halil (Jay Ersavas):HALIL: I can't lie, I didn't expect it from you, man, still!
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
up to a time, as in the preceding time
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: لَا يَزَال (lā yazāl) (negative form of زَالَ (zāla)), اِلَى اَلْأٰن (ilā l-ʔān)
- Hijazi Arabic: لِسَّة (lissa)
- Armenian: դեռ (hy) (deṙ)
- Aromanian: ningã, nica (roa-rup)
- Azerbaijani: hələ (az)
- Bashkir: һаман (haman), һаман да (haman da)
- Basque: oraindik
- Bau Bidayuh: bayuh
- Belarusian: яшчэ́ (jaščé)
- Bulgarian: о́ще (bg) (óšte)
- Catalan: encara (ca)
- Chamicuro: meye kala
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 仍然 (jing4 jin4)
- Hokkien: please add this translation if you can
- Mandarin: 還/还 (zh) (hái), 還是/还是 (zh) (háishi), 仍 (zh) (réng), 依然 (zh) (yīrán)
- Chuukese: chuen
- Czech: stále (cs), ještě (cs)
- Dalmatian: junkaura
- Danish: stadig (da)
- Dutch: nog (nl), nog steeds
- Esperanto: ankoraŭ
- Estonian: veel (et), ikka (et)
- Finnish: vielä (fi), edelleen (fi), yhä (fi)
- French: encore (fr), toujours (fr)
- Georgian: კვლავაც (ḳvlavac), ჯერაც (ǯerac), კიდევ (ḳidev), ჯერ კიდევ (ǯer ḳidev), ისევ (isev), ჯერ ისევ (ǯer isev)
- German: noch (de)
- Greek: ακόμα (el) (akóma)
- Ancient: ἔτι (éti)
- Hebrew: עוֹד (he) (od)
- Hindi: फिर भी (phir bhī)
- Hungarian: még (hu), még mindig (hu), továbbra is
- Icelandic: enn (is), ennþá (is)
- Ido: ankore (io)
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingua: totevia
- Irish: i gcónaí, fós, ar fad, go fóill
- Italian: ancora (it), tuttora (it)
- Japanese: (informal) まだ (ja) (mada), (formal) 依然として (izen to shite)
- Khmer: នៅតែ (km) (nɨwtae)
- Korean: 여전히 (ko) (yeojeonhi), 아직 (ko) (ajik), 계속(繼續) (ko) (gyesok) (continuously)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھێشتا (hêşta)
- Ladino: ainda, dainda, yene
- Latin: adhuc (la), etiamnum, etiamnunc
- Latvian: vēl, arvien vēl, joprojām
- Lithuanian: dar (lt), vis dar
- Macedonian: се́ уште (sé ušte), уште (ušte)
- Malay: masih (ms)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Manx: foast, foastagh (emphatic), choud's shoh
- Maore Comorian: raha
- Maori: tonu
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: अझै पनि (ajhai pani)
- Northern Sami: ain, vel
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ennå (no), fremdeles (no), fortsatt (no)
- Nynorsk: enno, ennå, framleis (nn)
- Occitan: encara (oc)
- Ojibwe: geyaabi
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: ѥште (ješte)
- Old East Slavic: още (ošče)
- Old English: ġīet
- Osage: etxą́
- Persian: هنوز (fa) (hanuz)
- Plautdietsch: doch (nds)
- Polish: nadal (pl), wciąż (pl), dalej (pl), ciągle (pl), stale (pl), jeszcze (pl)
- Portuguese: ainda (pt)
- Romanian: încă (ro)
- Russian: ещё (ru) (ješčó), всё ещё (ru) (vsjo ješčó)
- Serbo-Croatian: još (sh), još uvijek
- Slovak: stále, ešte, nadalej
- Slovene: šè (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: hyšći
- Spanish: todavía (es), aún (es)
- Swedish: fortfarande (sv), ännu (sv)
- Talysh:
- Asalemi: هنوز (hanuz)
- Tamil: இன்னும் (ta) (iṉṉum)
- Telugu: ఇంకా (te) (iṅkā)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: hâlâ (tr), hala (tr)
- Turkmen: heniz, häli (northeast)
- Ukrainian: ще (uk) (šče), іще́ (iščé)
- Vietnamese: còn (vi)
- Welsh: o hyd
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to an even greater degree
- Bashkir: тағы ла (tağı la), унан да (unan da)
- Bulgarian: още (bg) (ošte)
- Catalan: encara (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 還/还 (zh) (hái), 還要/还要 (hái yào), 更 (zh) (gèng)
- Czech: ještě (cs)
- Dutch: nog (nl)
- Esperanto: ankoraŭ, eĉ (eo)
- Estonian: ikka (et)
- Finnish: vielä (fi)
- French: encore (fr)
- German: noch (de)
- Hungarian: még (hu)
- Icelandic: enn (is), ennþá (is)
- Italian: ancora più
- Japanese: (informal) まだ (ja) (mada), もっと (ja) (motto), (general) 更に (ja) (sarani), より (ja) (yori)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھێشتا (hêşta)
- Latin: adhuc (la), etiamnunc, etiamnum
- Latvian: vēl
- Lithuanian: vis tiek
- Macedonian: уште по- (ušte po-)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: enda (no)
- Nynorsk: endå, enda
- Old English: ġīet
- Polish: jeszcze (pl)
- Portuguese: ainda (pt)
- Romanian: și (ro)
- Russian: ещё (ru) (ješčó)
- Slovak: ešte viac
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: hyšći
- Spanish: todavía (es), aún (es)
- Swedish: än (sv), ännu (sv), ändå (sv)
- Telugu: ఇంకా (te) (iṅkā) (inkaa)
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nevertheless
- Arabic: رَغِم ذٰلِك (raḡim ḏālik), مَعَ ذٰلِك (maʕa ḏālik)
- Azerbaijani: yenə də
- Bashkir: барыбер (barıber)
- Bulgarian: все пак (vse pak)
- Catalan: nogensmenys (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 還是/还是 (zh) (háishi), 仍然 (zh) (réngrán)
- Czech: i tak (cs), stále (cs)
- Dutch: toch (nl)
- Esperanto: malgraŭe, tamen (eo)
- Estonian: ikka (et)
- Finnish: silti (fi), vielä (fi)
- French: néanmoins (fr), quand même (fr)
- German: doch (de), trotzdem (de), dennoch (de)
- Hebrew: לַמְרוֹת זֹאת
- Hungarian: mégis (hu), mégsem (hu), mégiscsak (hu)
- Icelandic: þó (is), engu að síður, eigi að síður, samt (is)
- Italian: nonostante (it), malgrado (it), ancorchè, benchè, senza meno, nientemeno, comunque (it)
- Japanese: (informal) まだ (ja) (mada), (general) それでも (ja) (sore demo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بەڵام (bellam)
- Latin: tamen (la)
- Macedonian: сепак (sepak)
- Manx: ny yeih shen as ooilley
- Northern Sami: datte
- Norwegian: likevel (no), enda (no)
- Persian: هنوز (fa) (hanuz), باز هم (fa) (bâz ham), در هر صورت (dar har surat)
- Portuguese: mesmo assim, ainda assim (pt)
- Romanian: tot (ro)
- Russian: всё-таки (ru) (vsjo-taki), тем не ме́нее (ru) (tem ne méneje), всё же (vsjo že)
- Serbo-Croatian: unatoč
- Slovak: aj tak, i napriek tomu, ničmenej
- Spanish: sin embargo (es), no obstante (es)
- Swedish: ändå (sv), trots (sv) (e.g. "trots allt")
- Turkish: yine de
- Welsh: eto
- Yiddish: נאָך אַלץ (nokh alts)
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always, invariably, constantly
Translations to be checked
Noun
still (plural stills)
- A period of calm or silence.
the still of the night
1901, Good Words, volume 42, page 7:Between the roar of the thunder and the blatter of the rain there were intervals of an astounding still, of an ominous suspense […]
- (photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
- (cinematography) A single frame from a film.
- (slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.
Synonyms
Translations
period of calm or silence
- Bulgarian: тишина (bg) f (tišina)
- Finnish: tyven (fi), tyyneys (fi) (calm); hiljaisuus (fi) (silence)
- Georgian: სიმშვიდე (simšvide), შტილი (ka) (šṭili)
- German: Stille (de) f, Ruhe (de) f
- Hungarian: nyugalom (hu), csend (hu)
- Icelandic: kyrrð (is) f
- Italian: quiete (it) f
- Japanese: (sound): 静寂 (ja) (sējyaku), 静けさ (ja) (shizukesa), (wind, sea): 凪 (ja) (nagi)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھێمنی (hêmnî)
- Manx: kiuney f
- Northern Sami: goalki
- Russian: штиль (ru) m (štilʹ)
- Spanish: quietud (es) f
- Swedish: tystnad (sv) c (sound), vindstilla (sv) (wind), bleke (sv) n or c (wind at sea, water surface), stillestånd (sv) n (war), stillhet (sv) c
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photography: a non-moving photograph
resident of Falkland Islands
Translations to be checked
See also
Etymology 2
Via Middle English , ultimately from Latin stilla.
Noun
still (plural stills)
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
a device for distilling liquids
- Bulgarian: дестилатор m (destilator)
- Catalan: alambí (ca) m
- Dutch: distilleerapparaat n
- Finnish: tislauspannu
- French: alambic (fr) m
- Galician: alambique (gl) m
- German: Destillierapparat m, Destillierkolben (de) m
- Greek: αποστακτήρας (el) m (apostaktíras)
- Ancient: ἄμβιξ m (ámbix)
- Hungarian: lepárló (hu), szeszfőző (hu), desztilláló (hu) (készülék) (literally “apparatus”)
- Ido: alambiko (io)
- Italian: alambicco (it) m, lambicco (it) m, distillatore m
- Japanese: 蒸留器 (jōryū-ki)
- Manx: sthill f, poht losseree m
- Maori: kōhua māturuturu
- Norwegian: destillasjonsapparat n
- Portuguese: alambique (pt) m
- Russian: перего́нный куб m (peregónnyj kub), дистилля́тор (ru) m (distilljátor)
- Spanish: alambique (es) m, alquitara (es) f, destilador (es) m
- Swedish: destillationsapparat (sv) c, hembränningsapparat c, hembrännare c, destillator c
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building where liquor is distilled
— see distillery
Translations to be checked
See also
Etymology 3
From Old English stillan.
Verb
still (third-person singular simple present stills, present participle stilling, simple past and past participle stilled)
- To calm down, to quiet.
to still the raging sea
1695, John Woodward, An essay toward a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals, page 139:They likewise believed that he, having a full Sway and Command over the Water, had Power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it […]
c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 1, act 2, scene 3:Is this the scourge of France? / Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad / That with his name the mothers still their babes?
Synonyms
Translations
to calm down
- Bulgarian: успокоявам (bg) (uspokojavam), усмирявам (bg) (usmirjavam)
- Finnish: tyynnyttää (fi), rauhoittaa (fi)
- French: calmer (fr)
- Hungarian: lecsendesít (hu), lecsillapít (hu), megnyugtat (hu)
- Icelandic: stilla, róa
- Japanese: 静まる (ja) (shizumaru)
- Latin: sēdō
- Macedonian: смирува (smiruva), успокојува (uspokojuva)
- Manx: kiunee
- Norwegian: roe (no), stille (no) (archaic)
- Romanian: liniști (ro), calma (ro)
- Russian: успока́ивать (ru) impf (uspokáivatʹ), успоко́ить (ru) pf (uspokóitʹ), угомони́ть (ru) pf (ugomonítʹ)
- Swedish: lugna (sv), lugna ner (sv), stilla (sv)
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Etymology 4
Aphetic form of distil, or from Latin stillare.
Verb
still (third-person singular simple present stills, present participle stilling, simple past and past participle stilled)
- (obsolete) To trickle, drip.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto ii, paragraph xxix:And if that any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright,
- To cause to fall by drops.
- To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: Robert Triphook, , and William Sancho, , 1810, →OCLC:The knowledge of stilling is one pretty feat,
The waters be wholesome, the charges not great
Translations
to cause to fall by drops
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Middle High German stille, from Old High German stilli, from Proto-West Germanic *stillī.
Pronunciation
Adjective
still (strong nominative masculine singular stiller, comparative stiller, superlative am stillsten)
- quiet, silent
- stiller Alarm. ― silent alarm.
Declension
Comparative forms of still
Superlative forms of still
Adverb
still
- quietly, silently
Further reading
- “still” in Duden online
- “still” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Adjective
still
- quiet, silent
Further reading
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Verb
still
- imperative of stille
Still deg i køen.- Go stand in the queue.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
still
- imperative of stilla
Etymology 2
Adjective
still (masculine and feminine still, neuter stilt, definite singular and plural stille, comparative stillare, indefinite superlative stillast, definite superlative stillaste)
- Alternative form of stille
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
still m (plural stills)
- (photography) still
Swedish
Etymology
Alternative form of stilla.
Adverb
still (not comparable)
- still
barnet kan inte sitta still- the child can't sit still
References