stilly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The stilly murmur of the distant Sea Tells us of silence."
- "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."
- "Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly."
- "Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs […]."
- "[…] Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond."
- "She passed away very stilly and painlessly."
Etymology
From still + -ly.