Meaning of Somewhat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
   countable, uncountable
2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough”

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

“To these ladies a man often recommends himself while he is commending another woman; and, while he is expressing ardour and generous sentiments for his mistress, they are considering what a charming lover this man would make to them, who can feel all this tenderness for an inferior degree of merit. Of this, strange as it may seem, I have seen many instances besides Mrs Fitzpatrick, to whom all this really happened, and who now began to feel a somewhat for Mr Jones, the symptoms of which she much sooner understood than poor Sophia had formerly done.”

“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, […]”

“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.”

“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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