Definitions for still-life

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Still-Life is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in still-life (-efiilllst).

Definitions for still-life

noun

  1. a representation chiefly of inanimate objects, as a painting of a bowl of fruit.
  2. the category of subject matter in which inanimate objects are represented, as in painting or photography.

Origin of still-life

First recorded in 1635-45

Examples for still-life

The designer of “The Artistic Home” is right in keeping to still life.

All appropriation has its roots in still life – on the copy-stand, at least – but normally the context is cropped out.

These still let you drill down to see a single eye in a portrait or a grape in a still life.

The music gives the impression that there is still life here.

A slight trembling in its limbs, however, proclaimed that there was still life in it.

The video seems to channel Old Master animal painting, the way a Tonsfeldt installation once channeled a still life.

still life was a thread connecting us with the Giver of Life.

Every still life is secretly cinematic, some version of the freeze-frame.

(II) Drawing in color from still life and the costumed figure.

I'll bring you the lobster, you'll paint me a bit of still life from it, and keep it for your pains.

Word Value for still-life
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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