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Yet   /jɛt/   Listen
Yet

adverb
1.
Up to the present time.  "Details are yet to be worked out"
2.
Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time.  Synonyms: as yet, heretofore, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now.  "The sun isn't up yet"
3.
To a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons.  Synonyms: even, still.  "An even (or still) more interesting problem" , "Still another problem must be solved" , "A yet sadder tale"
4.
Within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time.  Synonym: in time.  "Sooner or later you will have to face the facts" , "In time they came to accept the harsh reality"
5.
Used after a superlative.  Synonym: so far.  "The largest drug bust yet"
6.
Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession).  Synonyms: all the same, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal.  "While we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed" , "He was a stern yet fair master" , "Granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"



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"Yet" Quotes from Famous Books



... Yet there was not the slightest tone of embarrassment or even coquetry in her manner, as with both hands she tried to gather in the loose folds around ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte

... gnawed at my heart, might have consumed it long ago; I might have fretted away as a garment which the moth eateth, had it not been for that fund of obstinate and iron hardness which nature—I beg pardon, there is no nature—circumstance bestowed upon me. This has borne me up, and will bear me yet through time and shame and bodily weakness and mental fever, until my ambition has won a certain height, and my disdain of human pettiness rioted in the external sources of fortune, as well as an inward fountain of bitter and self-fed consolation. Yet, ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... speeches, doubly impressive. Unfortunately, with only a few exceptions Bossuet's sermons have reached us in a very imperfect form. He did not, as a rule, fully write them, and the art of taking down verbatim the utterances of public speakers had not yet been invented. The sermon 'On the Unity of the Church' we possess because Bossuet had committed it to writing before delivering it; other impressive sermons, those on 'Death,' on the 'Conversion of the Sinner,' on 'Providence,' on the 'Duties of Kings,' ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various

... increased, and the difficulty of making a correct diagnosis is increased also in the same ratio. For when an emphysematous lung shall fully occupy the right thoracic side from B to L, then G, the liver, will protrude considerably into the abdomen beneath the right asternal ribs, and yet will not be therefore proof positive that the liver is diseased and abnormally enlarged. Whereas, on the other hand, when G, the liver, is actually diseased, it may occupy a situation in the right side as high as the fifth or sixth ribs, pushing the right ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... where it is well concealed by its color"; and Lophocarenum rostratum, a yellowish-brown spider, found among leaves on the ground. Among the Attidae bright sexual coloring often gains the ascendancy over the protective tints, yet this family gives us good examples in such species as M. ...
— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various


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