0 a type of painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects that do not move, such as flowers, fruit, bowls, etc.: --
We went to an exhibition of 17th century Dutch still lifes.
1 a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects that do not move, such as flowers or fruit --
And they have been forced to face the issue a little prematurely because there is still life in the old dog.
What has happened shows that, despite all the conflicts of political opinion, the most important thing is still life itself.
In fact, a disinterested observer might doubt whether it presented a picture of still life or of slow motion.
It was like going into another world—a world not of slow motion, but of still life.
They are trying to bury the body with indecent haste, even while there is still life in it.
In twentieth-century domestic architecture, the well-proportioned rectangular plan with carefully-placed objects within it, surrounded by a taut enclosing skin composed like a still life, was (and still is) de rigueur.
The only thing the situation proves is that there is still life outside television.
A third still life showed grey pottery vases with a warm grey background.