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Somewhat
Definitions
- 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 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 […]"
- 1 to certain extent or degree wordnet
- 2 to a small degree or extent wordnet
- 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 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."
- 1 Something. archaic
"Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]"
Etymology
From some + what.
From some + what.
From some + what.
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