after a fashion

Speech parts

1. after a fashion - Adverb

2. after a fashion - Phrase

Meaning

to some extent; not very well

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Synonyms

like comparatively approximately somewhat more or less somehow moderately relatively partially kinda kind of sort of give or take in a way ish
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Antonyms

closely exactly correctly perfectly precisely unerringly
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Examples

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view. Josiah Royce

The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered. Orson Scott Card

I could see even then that the British officials who spoke of him with a mixture of amusement and disapproval also genuinely liked and admired him, after a fashion. Nobody ever suggested that he was corrupt, or ambitious in any vulgar way, or that anything he did was actuated by fear or malice. George Orwell

he speaks French after a fashion Source: Internet

He told the GNA in an interview after a fashion show at the Golden Tulip in December 2006: "Keep designing. Source: Internet

In the face of absurdity, hope sustains us, as Albert Camus said after a fashion. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

after a fashion

Close letter words and terms

after a careful study after a close examination after a considerable time after a long time after a period of time after a short time