1. somewhat - Noun
2. somewhat - Adverb
3. somewhat - Pronoun
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
In some degree or measure; a little.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPainting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. Václav Havel
... it is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. Karl Weierstrass
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. T. E. Lawrence
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then w. Dan Quayle