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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

... than any other artist. The singer has to sing only one note at a time; the violinist or 'cellist need use but one hand for notes. Even the orchestral conductor who aspires to direct his men without the score before him, may experience a slip of memory once in awhile, yet he can go on without a break. A pianist, however, has perhaps half a dozen notes in each hand to play at once; every note must be indelibly engraved on the memory, for one dares not make a slip ...

— Piano Mastery - Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers • Harriette Brower

... the coupon, Eugene Mihailovich forgot all about it; but his wife, Maria Vassilievna, could not forgive herself for having been taken in, nor yet her husband for his cruel words. And most of all she was furious against the two boys who had so skilfully cheated her. From the day she had accepted the forged coupon as payment, she looked closely at all the schoolboys who came in her way ...

— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy

... me, father?" said the Princess. "Can you expect that I am to dip my own hands in the blood of this unfortunate man; or wilt thou seek a revenge yet more bloody than that which was exacted by the deities of antiquity, upon those criminals who ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... immediate answer, she was uneasy. The prospect of any change in their relationship frightened her. Like all weak women, she was afraid of change. Her life suited her. Even her misery she loved and fed on. She had pitied herself always. Not love, but fear of change, lay behind her shallow, anxious eyes. Yet he could not hurt her. She had been foolish, but she had not been wicked. In his new humility he found her infinitely ...

— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... prospectus. But the gospel is frightfully dear in reality. Religion costs more than education. England spends more in preparing her sons and daughters for the next world than in training them for this world. Yet the next world may be nothing but a dream, and certainly we know nothing about it; while this world is a solid and often a solemn fact, with its business as well as its pleasures, its work as well as its enjoyments, its duties as well as its ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

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