somewhat
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adverb- 1.
(not comparable)To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
The searing heat cooled somewhat as the sun set in the evening.
That hat seems somewhat small for him.
Đồng nghĩa: a bit, a touch, only just, acceptably, adequately, averagely, fairly, halfway, in a way, indifferent, mackly, moderately, middlesome, middling, middlingly, not quite, partially, passably, quite, rather, reasonably, somewhat, somewhatly, sufficiently, tolerably, a bit, a little, a little bit, a mite, a smidgen, a smidgeon, a tad, a touch, a trifle, barely, closely, faintly, hardly, imperceptibly, just, kinda, kinda sorta, kind of, low-key, marginally, mildly, modestly, nearly, only just, scarcely, slightly, somewhat, sorta, sorta kinda, sort of
- 2.
(UK, not comparable)(UK, meiosis) Very.
That hat seems somewhat small for him.
Đồng nghĩa: a bit, absolutely, ever so, quite, above a bit, absolutely, sorely, abundantly, all too, but good, completely, damn, eminently, ever so, exceedingly, excessively, extremely, flipping, freaking, fucking, greatly, highly, in spades, jolly, main, mightily, murrain, passing, positively, pretty, quite, really, right, simply, somewhat, sore, specially, strongly, swith, truly, vastly, very, very much, way, way too, wicked, wickedly
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- 1.
(archaic)Something.
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.
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
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.
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