yet

Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.

Adverb

  1. Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.
    • I haven't finished yet.
    • Have you finished yet?
    • We do not yet know what happened.

    1. In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.

    2. In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.

      • Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.

    3. (poetic or archaic) In affirmative use: still.

      • He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)
      • They atteſt facts vvhich they had heard vvhile they vvere yet heathens, and had they not found reaſon to believe them, they vvould ſtill have continued heathens, and have made no mention of them in their vvritings. - a....
  2. At some future time; eventually.
    • The riddle will be solved yet.
    • He'll be hanged yet. - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount,...
  3. Not as of the time referenced.
    • I’ve yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.
    • I had yet to go to a convention. — I had not yet gone to a convention.
    • They are yet to win a single match. — They have not yet won a single match.
  4. In addition.
    • There are two hours yet to go until our destination.
    • It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and...
    • After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar. - 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World...
  5. Even.
    • K-2 is yet higher than this.
    • Oh no! Yet more problems!
    • Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them. - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A...

Origin

Inherited from Middle English yet, yit, from Old English ġīet, gȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *jūta, from Proto-Germanic *juta (compare West Frisian jit, jitte (“yet”), Dutch ooit (“ever”), German jetzt (“now”)), compound of (1) *ju (“already”, adverb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-, accusative of *h₂óyu (“long time”) and (2) the Proto-Germanic *ta (“to, towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *do. More at aye and -th.

Forms

yit yitt ytt

Synonyms

even now still erenow so far to date formerly at last in time sooner or later subsequently besides further moreover

Derived

are we there yet as of yet as yet as yet unknown as-yet-unknown just yet not yet power of yet some time yet there's life in the old dog yet you ain't seen nothing yet

Conjunction

  1. Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.
    • I thought I knew you, yet how wrong was I!
    • It’s incredible yet true.
    • Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad. - 1602, William Warner, “The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. A...

Forms

yeat

Synonyms

be that as it may even so withal

Derived

as yet

Noun

  1. A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.

Forms

yets yit yete

Verb obsolete

  1. To pour.
    • […] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue - 1502, William Atkynson (translator), De Imitatione Christi, in 1893,...
    • Some with a fals herte, and a payntyd face In his lordes seruyce to haue chefe rowme and place Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly Lyes venemous, […] - 1509 (edition published 1874), Alexander Barclay (translator), The...
  2. To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
    • […] whiche shall present him selfe openly stained or embrued with sondry colours, or poudered with the duste of stones that he cutteth, or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten. - 1531 (edition...

Forms

yets yetting yet yetted yoten yit yete

Verb West Country, nonstandard

  1. To get.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Old English ġietan, from Proto-Germanic *getaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-. More at get.

Forms

yets yetting yot yotten