somewhat

English Online Dictionary. What means somewhat‎? What does somewhat mean?

English

Alternative forms

• (British, dialectal) summat (and variants listed there)

Etymology

From some +‎ what.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmwɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmwʌt/
• Hyphenation: some‧what

Adverb

somewhat (not comparable)

1. To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
2. (UK, meiosis) Very.

Translations

See also

• slightly

Pronoun

somewhat

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.

Translations

Noun

somewhat (countable and uncountable, plural somewhats)

1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
2. 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.