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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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nearly
English
Etymology
From near +? -ly.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n??li/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n??li/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?ni??li/
Adverb
nearly (comparative nearlier or more nearly, superlative nearliest or most nearly)
- (now rare) With great scrutiny; carefully. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.1:
- And whosoever hath traced mee and nearely [transl. de pres] looked into my humours, Ile loose a good wager if hee confesse not that there is no rule in their schoole, could, a midde such crooked pathes and divers windings, square and report this naturall motion, and maintaine an apparance of liberty and licence so equall and inflexible […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.1:
- With close relation; intimately. [from 16th c.]
- Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
- 1837, The Dublin University Magazine
- She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo
- [H]e was also accounted a man of wealth, and was nearly related to a high chief.
- Closely, in close proximity. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, IV.2:
- I doubt some danger do's approach you neerely.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, IV.2:
- In close approximation; almost, virtually. [from 17th c.]
- Stingily.
Synonyms
- almost, nigh, well-nigh, near, close to, next to, practically, virtually
Translations
Anagrams
- Nayler, Raelyn, Rylean, lanyer
nearly From the web:
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