Definition von „somewhat“ auf Englisch

adverb

1. To a limited extent or degree; not completely.

   • The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
   • The decision to shave or not is a somewhat personal one.
   • The searing heat cooled somewhat as the sun set in the evening.

2. (UK, meiosis) Very.

pronoun

1. (archaic) Something.

   • 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.

noun

1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

2. 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.