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/sˈəmwˈət/ /sˈəmhwˈət/ Listen

adverb

Somewhat adv. In some degree or measure; a little. "His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen." "Somewhat back from the village street."

noun

Somewhat n.

More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. "These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste." "Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost."

A person or thing of importance; a somebody. "Here come those that worship me. They think that I am somewhat."

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Etymology of 'Somewhat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Bird with sails unfurled left Marseilles, Jacopo felt somewhat dissatisfied with himself, and sometimes it appeared to him as if Manuelita had changed. Beautiful and lovely she still appeared, but her manner made some impression on Jacopo, and by degrees he found that others also thought his young, lovely wife had undergone a change. ...

— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere

... placed the basin upon a stool below the level of the table, took up a glass tube bent somewhat in the shape of a long-shanked hook, placed the short end gently beneath the surface of the nearly clear water, his lips to the long end, drew out the air, and the water followed directly from the atmospheric pressure, and ...

— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn

... behind with Torrance and sending me forward in the manner of a scout. I went up the hill, whistling from time to time my Gaelic air; and at length I had the pleasure to hear it answered and to see Alan rise from behind a bush. He was somewhat dashed in spirits, having passed a long day alone skulking in the county, and made but a poor meal in an alehouse near Dundas. But at the mere sight of my clothes, he began to brighten up; and as soon as I had told him in what a forward state ...

— Kidnapped • Robert Louis Stevenson

... related that Bjarni Herjulfsson came from Greenland to Eirek Jarl, who received him well. Bjarni described his voyage and the lands that he had seen. People thought he had shown a lack of interest as he had nothing to tell about them, and he was somewhat blamed for it. He became the Jarl's hirdman and went to Greenland the following summer, Now there was much talk ...

— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... their horses, and the steward opened the coach door and assisted his master to alight. Fareham's footsteps were somewhat uncertain as he walked slowly along the waste grass by the roadside, leaning a ...

— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

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