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somewhat |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Somewhat \Some"what`\, n. 1. More or less a certain quantity or degree; a part more or less something These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. --Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. --Dryden. 2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody. Here come those that worship me They think that I am somewhat. --Tennyson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Somewhat \Some"what`\, adv In some degree or measure; a little. His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. --Milton. Somewhat back from the village street. --Longfellow. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: somewhat adv 1: to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other" [syn: {slightly}] 2: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason" [syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {within reason}, {fairly}, {middling}, {passably}] [ant: {unreasonably}, {unreasonably}]
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