Meaning of Somewhat | Babel Free
ˈsʌmwɒtDefinitions
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?”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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