Meaning of SOMEWHAT
| Pronunciation: | | 'sum`wut
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- [adv] to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
- [adv] to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other"
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| | Synonyms: | | fairly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, slightly, within reason |
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| | Antonyms: | | immoderately, unreasonably | | |
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\Some"what`\, n.
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more
or less; something.
These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste.
--Grew.
Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this
transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts
will be lost. --Dryden.
2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Here come those that worship me. They think that I
am somewhat. --Tennyson.
\Some"what`\, adv.
In some degree or measure; a little.
His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. --Milton.
Somewhat back from the village street. --Longfellow.
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