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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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almost
English
Alternative forms
- aulmos (Jamaican English)
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eallm?st (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to all- +? most.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???l.m??st/, (emphatic, utterance-final) /??l.?m??st/
- (colloquial, unaccented) IPA(key): /???(l)m?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /??l.mo?st/, /??l.mo?st/, /?o?.mo?st/
- Hyphenation: al?most
- Rhymes: -??st
Adverb
almost (not comparable)
- Very close to, but not quite.
Synonyms
- (very close to, but not quite): nearly, nigh, well-nigh, near, close to, next to, practically, virtually, not yet, not
Translations
Noun
almost (plural almosts)
- (informal) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
Anagrams
- Altoms, smalto, stomal
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