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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



... shall do, for we ain't talked it over much yet, but with church twice on Sunday and prayer-meetin' Wednesday evenings, and the sewin' circle on Friday, and two New York papers every week, and Miriam, and all your pa's books to prop up against the lamp, I don't reckon I'll get so dreadful lonesome. I've thought ...
— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed

... this, surely, and yet work on a newspaper," said Lucien. "If I had absolutely no other way of earning a living, I ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... is the way of the world! They will never forgive us for living so close to the town, yet never entering it. The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it. Do you think that our happiness can escape envy? Even ...
— The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts • Honore De Balzac

... concerned with the facts of a man's life, and though, in his own word, he fleshes the bare skeleton of time, place, and person with pleasant passages, and interlaces many delightful stories by way of illustrations, and everywhere holds us by the quaint turns of his fertile fancy, yet the scheme of the book did not involve the depicting of character, nor did it allow him to deal with many contemporaries whom he had known. In the present volume it has therefore been found best ...
— Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles • Various

... improved it. A woman who could go to Hintock House and be friendly with its mistress, enter into the views of its mistress, talk like her, and dress not much unlike her, why, she would hardly be contented with him, a yeoman, now immersed in tree-planting, even though he planted them well. "And yet she's a true-hearted girl," he said, thinking of her words about Hintock. "I must bring matters to a point, and ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy


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