Somewhat

//ˈsʌmwɒt// adv, noun, pron

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    To a limited extent or degree; not completely. not-comparable

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

  2. 2
    Very. UK, not-comparable

    "Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition but somewhat weatherbeaten […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    to certain extent or degree wordnet
  2. 2
    to a small degree or extent wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. countable, uncountable

    "its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough"

  2. 2
    A person or thing of importance; a somebody. countable, uncountable

    "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."

Pronoun
  1. 1
    Something. archaic

    "Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From some + what.

Etymology 2

From some + what.

Etymology 3

From some + what.

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