AS YET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does as yet mean? 

• AS YET (adverb)
  The adverb AS YET has 1 sense:

1. used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time

  Familiarity information: AS YET used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AS YET (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time

Synonyms:

as yet; heretofore; hitherto; so far; thus far; til now; until now; up to now; yet

Context example:

the sun isn't up yet

 Context examples 

As yet I have not had the chance of looking at the papers which Van Helsing left with me, though they lie open before me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As yet, she cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard nor of its reasonableness.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Irregular-shaped argyrophilic cells which produce histamine, chromogranin A/pancreastatin, and an as yet unidentified peptide hormone.

(Enterochromaffin-Like Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Further study may also provide information that might point to the locations of as yet unidentified additional planets.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

These receptors accumulate in endocytic vesicles and are either targeted for degradation or slowly recycled to the membrane via as yet poorly defined routes.

(GPCR Desensitization Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Orphan Nuclear Receptor Genes (NR Superfamily) encode numerous Orphan Nuclear Receptor (NRs) transcription factors thought to be activated by as yet unknown ligands.

(Orphan Nuclear Receptor Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

“And let ten of Sir Oliver's bowmen do as much for the Genoese. I have no mind as yet to show them how much they have to fear from us.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I distinguished several other words without being able as yet to understand or apply them, such as good, dearest, unhappy.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Bonaldo also said that a possible link between the genetic variation and environmental disasters cannot be confirmed as yet.

(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)

While wood has been used in buildings for millennia, its mechanical properties have not, as yet, measured up to all modern building standards for major superstructures.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)