somewhat

Speech parts

1. somewhat - Noun

2. somewhat - Adverb

3. somewhat - Pronoun

Meaning

More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

In some degree or measure; a little.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

slightly fairly reasonably moderately rather partly more or less pretty relatively passably kind of sort of in some measure jolly some
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Antonyms

allah inca ultra spang all right
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Phrases with the word

leaning somewhat somewhat precious somewhat bad somewhat salt somewhat tall somewhat salty

Examples

Painting 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

Close letter words and terms

someway someways someweh somewhat bad somewhat farther away somewhat flat