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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



... are like me, you are fretting at the weather. We have not a leaf, yet, large enough to make an apron for a Miss Eve of two years old. Flowers and fruits, if they come at all this year, must meet together as they do in a Dutch picture; our lords and ladies, however, couple as if it were the real Gioventu dell' anno. ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole
... big with potential damage to him. Some of his enemies might find out about it and make a scandal. Archulera might come around in an ugly mood and make trouble. The girl might run away and come to town again. And yet, now that he had a ...
— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson
... not to the reader; egotistical talk may be pleasant enough, but, commit it to paper, the fault carries its own punishment. The recurrence of that everlasting first pronoun becomes a real stumbling-block to one at last. Yet there is no evading it, unless you cast your story into a curt, succinct diary; to carry this off effectively, requires a succession of incidents, more varied ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence
... can do much in developing her faculties, as well as in sheltering her from being thrust into positions to which she would be unequal. You do so already. Though her weakness was apparent to me the first week I was in the house, yet, owing to your kind guardianship, I never perceived its extent till you were absent. I could not have imagined so much tact and vigilance could have been unconscious. Nay, dear child, it is no cause for tears. Her ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... intimates she was called Maddy. He had an idea that he had heard Dalrymple in old times talk of her as Maddy Mullins, and just at this moment the idea was not pleasant to him; at any rate he could not call her Maddy as yet. "How am I to help you," he said, "unless ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope


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