Crossword clues for stillest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Still \Still\, a. [Compar. Stiller; superl. Stillest.] [OE. stille, AS. stille; akin to D. stil, OS. & OHG. stilli, G. still, Dan. stille, Sw. stilla, and to E. stall; from the idea of coming to a stand, or halt. Cf. Still, adv.]
Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still. ``Still as any stone.''
--Chaucer.-
Uttering no sound; silent; as, the audience is still; the animals are still.
The sea that roared at thy command, At thy command was still.
--Addison. Not disturbed by noise or agitation; quiet; calm; as, a still evening; a still atmosphere. ``When all the woods are still.''
--Milton.Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low. ``A still small voice.''
--1 Kings xix. 12.-
Constant; continual. [Obs.]
By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
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Not effervescing; not sparkling; as, still wines. Still life. (Fine Arts)
Inanimate objects.
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(Painting) The class or style of painting which represents inanimate objects, as fruit, flowers, dead game, etc.
Syn: Quiet; calm; noiseless; serene; motionless; inert; stagnant.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: still)
Usage examples of "stillest".
Mary experienced the effect often consequent upon grief quietly borne, and soon sunk into temporary forgetfulness, while Margaret became more disturbed and feverish, in proportion as the night advanced with its deepest and stillest hours.
His eyes were fixed intently on the place where a large trout had risen in the stillest toffee-coloured pool.
I had reached the deepest and stillest pool when my eyes caught that for which they were searching, and I burst into a shout of triumph.
And then, because even in the stillest of hours, by the side of the water, I was not still, I took off my clothes and walked naked to the shore.
It was the stillest silence they had ever known, broken once by a distant lapping, which Peter explained was the wild beasts drinking at the ford, and again by a rasping sound that might have been the branches of trees rubbing together, but he said it was the redskins sharpening their knives.
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, Thou stillest, them.
For it is, even with the stillest and politest circles, as with the circle the necromancer draws around him--very strange appearances may be seen in active motion outside.
They had a peculiar quality of seeming to be the center, the heart of the house, and at the same time the stillest place in it.
There must be plenty of rabbits on the other side, a whole heaven of them, ready to be the stillest that it is possible to be.
Like a silence spreading over a room full of people, like an infinitesimal coolness on a sultry day, like a passing memory of some long-forgotten sound or scent, like all that is stillest and smallest and most hard to seize in nature, Oyarsa passed between his subjects and drew near and came to rest, not ten yards away from Ransom, in the centre of Meldilorn.