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Definitions for somewhat
ˈsʌmˌʰwʌt, -ˌʰwɒt, -ʰwət, -ˌwʌt, -ˌwɒt, -wətsome·what

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slightly, somewhat, more or lessadverb

    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"

  2. reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passablyadverb

    to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

    "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"

Wiktionary

  1. somewhatadverb

    To a limited extent or degree.

  2. somewhatpronoun

    something

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Somewhatadverb

    In some degree.

    Holding of the breath doth help somewhat to cease the hiccough. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    He is somewhat arrogant at his first entrance, and is too inquisitive through the whole; yet these imperfections hinder not our compassion. Dryden.

  2. Somewhatnoun

    Etymology: some and what.

    Upon the sea somewhat methought did rise
    Like blueish mists. John Dryden, Indian Emperor.

    He that shuts his eyes against a small light, on purpose to avoid the sight of somewhat that displeases him, would, for the same reason, shut them against the sun. Francis Atterbury.

    Concerning every of these, somewhat Christ hath commanded, which must be kept ’till the world’s end: on the contrary side, in every of them somewhat there may be added, as the church judges it expedient. Richard Hooker.

    These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste, but mixt with a smatch of vitriolick. Nehemiah Grew.

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

ChatGPT

  1. somewhat

    Somewhat is an adverb that is used to refer to a degree or extent that is not large but still noticeable or important. It indicates that something is to a limited extent or degree or that something is moderately, rather than extremely or very, certain way.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Somewhatnoun

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

  2. Somewhatnoun

    a person or thing of importance; a somebody

  3. Somewhatadverb

    in some degree or measure; a little

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'somewhat' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2203

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'somewhat' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3216

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'somewhat' in Adverbs Frequency: #176

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of somewhat in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of somewhat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of somewhat in a Sentence

  1. Art Caplan:

    Collins understands that this is necessary to convince a somewhat skeptical public.

  2. Grant Newsham:

    Capabilities haven't developed as quickly or as fully as they might, the Symposium will hopefully coalesce these ongoing but somewhat disjointed efforts towards amphibious capability.

  3. Edsger W. Dijkstra:

    The argument against recursive procedures was always an efficiency argument: non-re-entrant code could be executed so much more efficiently. But with the advent of multiprogramming another need for felxible storage allocation has emerged. And if there are still machines in which the use of recursive routines is punished by too heavy a penalty, then I would venture the opinion that the structure of such a machine should now be called somewhat old-fashioned.

  4. Emmet Sullivan:

    This is a very important case. The public has a significant interest in not only this case, but the issues of what the government is doing with respect to the investigation, i don't know. I may be somewhat cynical. My guess is that Larry Klayman'll probably receive a lot of -- hundreds of pages of documents that essentially say' no comment,' but I may be shocked if that's not the case.

  5. Angus Nicholson:

    Chinese data showed further weakening across the board, but it is clear that government spending and a recovery in the real estate market are helping hold up growth, china looks to be returning to a very familiar investment and real estate-driven growth pattern, somewhat at odds with their claims of economic rebalancing.

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