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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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... very intensity becomes almost a sacred cause, and seems to obtain from the unseen powers of circumstance success at last. So with Cortes and others of the Spaniards. The period prescribed by the somewhat rash prophecy of the Aztec priests and their infernal oracle having passed without anything remarkable having taken place, the Tlascalan and Texcocan allies, upbraided and warned by the Spaniards' messengers, ...

— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock

... temperate regions to another. In the Azores, from the large number of the species of plants common to Europe, in comparison with the plants of other oceanic islands nearer to the mainland, and (as remarked by Mr. H. C. Watson) from the somewhat northern character of the flora in comparison with the latitude, I suspected that these islands had been partly stocked by ice-borne seeds, during the Glacial epoch. At my request Sir C. Lyell wrote ...

— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin

... attired in the latest fashion of French St. Genevieve. He bowed to this lady; but at the same time, the glance he cast at her French waiting-maid was evidence enough of the actuating cause of his journey. He had heard somewhat of these ...

— The Purchase Price • Emerson Hough

... said. And the old woman assisted her to undress, and so she lay down with a sigh in her bed. And Tamar, her round spectacles by this time on her nose, sitting at the little table by her pillow, read, in a solemn and somewhat quavering voice, such comfortable passages ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... extracted the bitterness of jealousy and resentment, and as he had no idea that an act of courtesy to his brother could derogate from his own dignity or importance, he indulged the honest impatience of his heart to communicate the pleasure with which it overflowed: he was, indeed, somewhat disappointed, to find no traces of satisfaction in the countenance of ALMORAN, when he saw the same paper in his hand, which had impressed so much ...

— Almoran and Hamet • John Hawkesworth

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