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stilly

stilly adjective: silent; calm.

Adjective

stilly (comparative stillier, superlative stilliest)

  1. silent; calm
    • The stilly murmur of the distant Sea
      Tells us of silence.1795, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Eolian Harp, lines 11–12
    • The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare.1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12

Adverb

stilly (comparative more stilly, superlative most stilly)

  1. While still and calm.
    • She passed away very stilly and painlessly.1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone
    • The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening.1902, Mary Johnston, Audrey

stilly meaning in Tamil

stilly in Tamil

அமைதியான

Examples of stilly in a sentence

  • Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly.1879, Anthony Trollope, Thackeray:
  • Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs […].1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows:
  • When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board.1921, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat:

Forms of stilly

Adjective
comparativestillier
superlativestilliest
Adverb
comparativemore stilly
superlativemost stilly

Origin of stilly

From still + -ly.

Questions about stilly

What does stilly mean?
Stilly means silent; calm.
What is stilly in Tamil?
Stilly in Tamil is அமைதியான. See Stilly meaning in Tamil.
How do you use stilly in a sentence?
Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly.
What part of speech is stilly?
Stilly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near stilly in the dictionary

  1. Stillwater County
  2. stillwaterite
  3. Stillwell
  4. stillwellite
  5. Stillwells
  6. stilly
  7. stillyard
  8. stillyards
  9. stilp
  10. stilped
  11. stilper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stilly (page history and authors); stilly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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