Dictionary

somewhat en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌmwɒt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio
• /ˈsʌmwʌt/ (General-American)

Etymology

From some + what.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
   • I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […] and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
   • The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
   • its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough 1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC:
   • That hat seems somewhat small for him.
   • The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
   • The searing heat cooled somewhat as the sun set in the evening.
2. (UK, not-comparable) Very.
   • 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 […] 1942 September and October, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 309:
   • That hat seems somewhat small for him.

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Antonyms

imperceptibly · from A to Z · soup-to-nuts · tout à fait · low-key · to the full · hardly · lock · blind · whole · plumb · whole cloth · through and through · a bit · scarcely · just · out and out · downright · a little bit · one hundred percent · from soup to nuts · somewhat · a little · to the bone · only just · top to toe · finally · top to tail · kinda · particularly · entirely · straight up · marginally · from aardvark to zymurgy · stone-cold · a mite · scarcely · from head to toe · quite · perfectly · detailly · first and last · a tad · mildly · kinda sorta · in full · properly · cap-a-pie · a touch · line · purely · a smidgen · absolutely · out-and-out · root and branch · a smidgeon · totes · flat out · heartily · from stem to stern · sorta kinda · utterly · absolutely · from the rooter to the tooter · outright · stark · head to toe · quite · sorta · fully · head to foot · sort of · categorically · a touch · altogether · soundly · completely · closely · cold · at large · head to tail · and barrel · from top to toe · in detail · totally · stock · slightly · barely · a trifle · faintly · totally · to the core · kind of · from top to bottom · all the way · hook · nearly · and sinker · right · all-out · wholly · only just · well and truly · modestly · exhaustively · wholly · flat-out · at length · handsomely

Coordinates

rather

Synonyms

somewhat · damn · pretty · kinda · middling · kind of · specially · kinda sorta · passing · in a way · jolly · a bit · halfway · absolutely · somewhat · modestly · right · swith · sorely · extremely · simply · really · eminently · above a bit · abundantly · ever so · quite · mildly · greatly · truly · a trifle · sorta kinda · quite · quite · a smidgeon · absolutely · reasonably · horrendously · rather · acceptably · excessively · in spades · just · hardly · middlingly · middlesome · a little bit · only just · ever so · strongly · main · bone · sore · fairly · moderately · a tad · averagely · very much · positively · way · sorta · marginally · partially · low-key · a touch · wickedly · barely · all too · but good · imperceptibly · a touch · horribly · way too · exceedingly · fucking · adequately · a smidgen · scarcely · closely · indifferent · widely · not quite · slightly · very · nearly · mightily · a bit · sufficiently · all · passably · flipping · highly · freaking · somewhatly · a little · a bit · sort of · a mite · tolerably · somewhat · mackly · completely · murrain · wicked · vastly · faintly · only just

Translations (78)

cy eithaf (limited extent) · fi jossain määrin (limited extent) · pl trochę (limited extent) · fi jonkin verran (limited extent) · es algo (limited extent) · fa تا حدی (limited extent) · nv tʼáá yédígo (limited extent) · pt um tanto (limited extent) · hu valamivel (limited extent) · ja やや (limited extent) · gd leth-char (limited extent) · sv något (limited extent) · cs poněkud (limited extent) · de einigermaßen (limited extent) · sh donekle (limited extent) · nl ietwat (limited extent) · ru отча́сти (limited extent) · tr bir miktar (limited extent) · pl dość (limited extent) · es un tanto (limited extent) · pt meio (limited extent) · cmn 有點 /有点 (limited extent) · no noen lunde (limited extent) · it piuttosto (limited extent) · ast dalgo (limited extent) · nl enigszins (limited extent) · ja 多少 (limited extent) · dsb tšochu (limited extent) · ru до не́которой сте́пени (limited extent) · ja ある程度 (limited extent) · sh ponešto (limited extent) · nl een beetje (limited extent) · mi hanga (limited extent) · uk пе́вною мі́рою (limited extent) · hu kissé (limited extent) · gl dalgún xeito (limited extent) · bg ма́лко (limited extent) · cmn 有所 (limited extent) · eo iomete (limited extent) · ga rud beag (limited extent) · pl nieco (limited extent) · ru немно́го (limited extent) · pl niejako (limited extent) · tr biraz (limited extent) · cmn 有些 (limited extent) · ru в не́которой сте́пени (limited extent) · gd car (limited extent) · vi hơi (limited extent) · bg до изве́стна сте́пен (limited extent) · uk поча́сти (limited extent) · ast dello (limited extent) · tr bir nebze (limited extent) · hu némileg (limited extent) · fr assez (limited extent) · pl poniekąd (limited extent) · cmn 幾分 /几分 (limited extent) · fr quelque peu (limited extent) · mi āhua (limited extent) · yi עפּעס (limited extent) · ga breis (limited extent) · vo boso (limited extent) · ckb نەختێک (limited extent) · pdt eenjemoten (limited extent) · hu kicsivel (limited extent) · hu kicsit (limited extent) · ro întrucâtva (limited extent) · ckb کەمێک (limited extent) · tr bir parça (limited extent) · la aliquantum (limited extent) · cmn 多少 (limited extent) · it alquanto (limited extent) · de etwas (limited extent) · ru не́сколько (limited extent) · cy rhywfaint (limited extent) · mk донекаде (limited extent) · uk де́що (limited extent) · eu samar (limited extent) · hu valamelyest (limited extent)

somewhat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌmwɒt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio
• /ˈsʌmwʌt/ (General-American)

Etymology

From some + what.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
   • 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. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
   • 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, […] 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “[Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman] The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman. [Night 558.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VI, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 53:
2. (countable, uncountable) 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? 1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 59:
   • 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.

Forms

Deriveds

somewhatly · somewhatness

somewhat en · PRON

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌmwɒt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio
• /ˈsʌmwʌt/ (General-American)

Etymology

From some + what.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Something.
   • Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 6:
   • Mr Jones had somewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth certainly inhabit some human breasts […] 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
   • Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, As if in minde he somewhat had to say […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • 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.
   • Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

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