somewhat

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈsʌmwɒt/]

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1. somewhat (adv) — sense 1

Definition: To a limited extent or degree; not completely.

Example: The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.

2. somewhat (adv) — sense 2

Definition: Very.

Example: That hat seems somewhat small for him.

3. somewhat (pron) — sense 3

Definition: Something.

Example: a. 1716, Robert Trail, sermon on the Lord's Prayer
But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.

4. somewhat (noun) — sense 4

Definition: A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

Example: Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.

5. somewhat (noun) — sense 5

Definition: A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

Example: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida
Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.

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