Category:Somewhat

Some"what`, n.

1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; Something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much Of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden.

2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody. Here come those that worship me. They think that i am somewhat. Tennyson.

Somewhat Some"what`, adv.

Defn: in some degree or measure; a little. His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. Milton. Somewhat back from the village street. Longfellow.