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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Somewhat \Some"what'\, noun
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Somewhat \Some"what'\, adverb In some degree or measure; a little.
His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. --Milton.
Somewhat back from the village street. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
somewhat
adverb
1: to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other" [syn: {slightly}]
2: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason" [syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {within reason}, {fairly}, {middling}, {passably}] [ant: {unreasonably}, {unreasonably}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "somewhat": a bit, a little, adequately, after a fashion, any, anything, appreciably, at any rate, at best, at least, at most, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, aught, comparatively, considerably, detectably, extremely, fairly, far, in a manner, in a measure, in a way, in part, in some measure, incompletely, insignificantly, kind of, leastwise, merely, mildly, moderately, modestly, more or less, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, only, part, partially, partly, pretty, pro tanto, purely, quite, rather, relatively, scarcely, significantly, simply, slightly, so far, some, something, sort of, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, to some extent, tolerably, very, visibly
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