somewhat

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To a limited extent or degree

   To a limited extent or degree; not completely.

   • The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
   • The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
   • The searing heat cooled somewhat as the sun set in the evening.
2. 2

   Very.

   • That hat seems somewhat small for him.
   • 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 […]
3. 3

   Something.

   • Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […]
   • 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.
   • Mr Jones had somewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth certainly inhabit some human breasts […]
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   1. 4

      A certain quantity or degree

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

      • Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
      • Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […]
   2. 5

      A person or thing of importance

      A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

      • Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat. What am I?

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