somewhat
Academic Word List, sublist 7.
About 52.68 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb To a limited extent or degree; not completely.
The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
- adverb (Can we verify this sense?) Very.
That hat seems somewhat small for him.
- pronoun Something.
- noun A certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
- noun A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Similar words
moderately slightly fairly reasonably passably middling within reason somedeal kinda sorta
Often followed by
more different less similar in of like higher later
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