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Somewhat
English
Alternative forms
- (British, dialectal) summat (and variants listed there)
Etymology
some +? what
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?mw?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?mw?t/
- Hyphenation: some?what
- Rhymes: -?t
Adverb
somewhat (not comparable)
- (degree) To a limited extent or degree.
Translations
See also
- slightly
Pronoun
somewhat
- (archaic) Something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand, / As if in minde he somewhat had to say […].
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
Translations
Noun
somewhat (countable and uncountable, plural somewhats)
- More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
- 1682, Nehemiah Grew, Anatomy of Plants
- its taste, which is plainly acid, and somewhat rough
- Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
- To these ladies a man often recommends himself while he is commending another woman; and, while he is expressing ardour and generous sentiments for his mistress, they are considering what a charming lover this man would make to them, who can feel all this tenderness for an inferior degree of merit. Of this, strange as it may seem, I have seen many instances besides Mrs Fitzpatrick, to whom all this really happened, and who now began to feel a somewhat for Mr Jones, the symptoms of which she much sooner understood than poor Sophia had formerly done.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 558:
- Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […]
- 1682, Nehemiah Grew, Anatomy of Plants
- 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.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites
- Here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida
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a_little
English
Adverb
a little (not comparable)
- To a small extent or degree.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Hi, Amelia! Are you busy? — I’m a little busy.
- Hi, Amelia! Are you busy? — I’m a little busy.
- 2018 "The Spear of Selene", Duck Tales
- Scrooge McDuck "A little salty."
Zeus "Dip not good enough for you mortal? You offend Olympus!"
- Scrooge McDuck "A little salty."
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
Synonyms
- a bit, a little bit
Antonyms
- a lot
Translations
Determiner
a little
- A small amount of.
Usage notes
- A little is used only with uncountable nouns. A few or some are preferred for countable nouns.
Translations
Anagrams
- Tetilla, alt-lite, tetilla
a_little From the web:
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- what a little moonlight can do lyrics
- what a little ham meaning
- what a little ham
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- what a little bit of love can do lyrics
- what a little love can do
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