Definition of even

"even" in the noun sense

1. evening, eve, even, eventide

the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall

"he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

"even" in the verb sense

1. flush, level, even out, even

make level or straight

"level the ground"

2. even, even out

become even or more even

"even out the surface"

3. even, even out

make even or more even

"even" in the adjective sense

1. even

divisible by two

2. even, fifty-fifty

equal in degree or extent or amount or equally matched or balanced

"even amounts of butter and sugar"

"on even terms"

"it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"

"had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"

"an even fight"

3. even

being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with

"an even application of varnish"

"an even floor"

"the road was not very even"

"the picture is even with the window"

4. even, regular

symmetrically arranged

"even features"

"regular features"

"a regular polygon"

5. even, regular

occurring at fixed intervals

"a regular beat"

"the even rhythm of his breathing"

6. tied, even, level

of the score in a contest

"the score is tied"

"even" in the adverb sense

1. even

used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected

"even an idiot knows that"

"declined even to consider the idea"

"I don't have even a dollar!"

2. even

in spite of notwithstanding

"even when he is sick, he works"

"even with his head start she caught up with him"

3. even, yet, still

to a greater degree or extent used with comparisons

"looked sick and felt even worse"

"an even (or still) more interesting problem"

"still another problem must be solved"

"a yet sadder tale"

4. even

to the full extent

"loyal even unto death"

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Quotations for even

Even lust and envy sleep. [ Dryden ]

Even a fly hath its spleen. [ Proverb ]

Even cities have their graves. [ Longfellow ]

There is emulation even in vice. [ Eugene Sue ]

Even wolves are charmed by music. [ Rutini ]

A man may buy even gold too dear. [ Proverb ]

Art is pleasure, even in old age. [ E. Quellin ]

There is even the dignity of vice. [ Rivarol ]

The sun shines even on the wicked. [ Seneca ]

Even a blind man could perceive it. [ Proverb ]

Even pleasure cloys without variety. [ Ovid ]

Art is art, even though unsuccessful. [ J. Harris ]

Even women are perfect at the outset. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Do not trust a woman, even when dead. [ Proverb ]

Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold. [ Tibullus ]

Even the fool is wise after the event. [ Homer ]

Triflers not even in trifles can excel. [ Young ]

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin. [ William Shakespeare ]

Necessity can make even cowards valiant. [ J. Hall ]

Double charging will break even a cannon. [ Proverb ]

The grave where even the great find rest. [ Pope ]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. [ Alan Turing ]

Not even the gods contend with necessity. [ Simonides ]

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals. [ Tacitus ]

Even a child may beat a man that is bound. [ Proverb ]

Light has spread, and even bayonets think. [ Kossuth ]

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

A friend must not be injured, even in jest. [ Syrus ]

Even wit is a burden when it talks too long. [ Dryden ]

Tomorrow even may bring the final reckoning. [ Spurgeon ]

Even wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. [ Dryden ]

And even his failings leaned to virtue's side. [ Goldsmith ]

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Even peace may be purchased at to high a price. [ Franklin ]

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. [ Bailey ]

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. [ Tacitus ]

A man may say even his pater-noster out of time. [ Proverb ]

Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water. [ Proverb ]

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children. [ Timothy Dwight ]

Even the best things are not equal to their fame. [ Thoreau ]

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. [ Dumas, Fils ]

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. [ James A. Garfield ]

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Even a Venice-glass, if well kept, will last long. [ Proverb ]

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A physician may not turn his back even on an enemy. [ Gutzkow ]

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye. [ Prince de Ligne ]

Dress up even a little toad and it will look pretty. [ Proverb ]

A man may say too much even on the best of subjects. [ Proverb ]

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings. [ Lemierre ]

Even the gods are unable to contend against necessity. [ Simonides ]

Carry your knife even between the paring and the apple. [ Proverb ]

Liberty is majesty, more royal even than royalty itself! [ E. P. Day ]

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. [ Bible ]

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation. [ Edward Burke ]

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. [ Aristotle ]

He is safe from danger who is on his guard even when safe. [ Syrus ]

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you. [ William Shakespeare ]

A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all storms.

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. [ Plato ]

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from enemies. [ Plutarch ]

Much is set to music that is not even worthy of being spoken. [ Beaumarchais ]

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains. [ Schiller ]

Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the greatest harm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [ Plautus ]

Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person. [ Virgil ]

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. [ Hume ]

Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind. [ Virgil ]

Men must endure their going hence. Even as their coming hither. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. [ Napoleon ]

Nothing is so strong but may be endangered even by the weakest. [ Rufus ]

Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off. [ Proverb ]

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign. [ Tacitus ]

We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence. [ Hazlitt ]

The least reliance can be placed even on the most exalted fortune. [ Livy ]

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit. [ Fielding ]

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. [ Burns ]

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food. [ Ruskin ]

Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. [ Napoleon I ]

Cupid is a traitor who scratches, even when one only plays with him. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. [ Greville ]

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. [ Hazlitt ]

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. [ Amiel ]

After a good dinner one could forgive anybody, even one's own relations. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret, sympathetic aid. [ Thomson ]

Even Justice wears a bandage, and shuts her eyes on everything deceptive. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Though duller thoughts succeed, the bliss even of a moment still is bliss. [ Joanna Baillie ]

I resemble the poplar, - that tree which, even when old, still looks young. [ Joubert ]

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. [ Archbishop Manning ]

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. [ Halleck ]

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [ Quintilian ]

Culture, which has licked all the world into shape, has reached even the devil. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. [ Carlyle ]

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils, even if equal in number. [ Pliny ]

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty. [ Burke ]

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [ Bible ]

even in Scrabble®

The word even is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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even in Words With Friends™

The word even is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters even:

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Words within the letters of even

2 letter words in even (1 word)

3 letter words in even (2 words)

4 letter words in even (1 word)

even + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence even

Words that end with even (7 words)

Word Growth involving even

Shorter words in even

en

eve

Longer words containing even

breakeven breakevens

eleven elevenfold

eleven elevens

eleven eleventh elevenths

evened

evener unevener

evenest unevenest

evenhanded evenhandedly

evenhanded evenhandedness evenhandednesses

evening evenings midevenings

evening midevening midevenings

evenlight

evenly unevenly

evenness unevenness

evennumber evennumbered

evennumber evennumbering

evennumber evennumbers

evenpinnate

evens breakevens

evens elevens

evens evensong evensongs

evens sevens

event bioevent bioevents

event eleventh elevenths

event eventbased

event eventful eventfully uneventfully

event eventful eventfulness uneventfulness

event eventful noneventful

event eventful uneventful uneventfully

event eventful uneventful uneventfulness

event eventide eventides

event eventilate eventilated reventilated

event eventilate eventilates reventilates

event eventilate reventilate reventilated

event eventilate reventilate reventilates

event eventilating reventilating

event eventilation eventilations reventilations

event eventilation reventilation reventilations

event eventing preventing

event eventless

event events bioevents

event events nonevents

event events prevents

event eventual eventualisation eventualisations

event eventual eventualise eventualised

event eventual eventualise eventualises

event eventual eventualising

event eventual eventualities

event eventual eventuality

event eventual eventualization eventualizations

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event eventual eventualizing

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event eventuate eventuated

event eventuate eventuates

event eventuating

event nonevent noneventful

event nonevent nonevents

event prevent preventabilities

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event prevent preventable preventableness

event prevent preventable unpreventable

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event prevent prevention chemoprevention

event prevent prevention preventions

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event seventeen seventeenfold

event seventeen seventeens

event seventeen seventeenth seventeenths

event seventh sevenths

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event seventy seventyfifth

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event seventy seventyfold

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event seventy seventynine

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revenge revengeable

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revenge revengeful revengefully

revenge revengeful revengefulness

revenge revengeless

revenge revenger revengers

revenge revenges

revenging revengingly

revenue nonrevenue

revenue revenues

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