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English

Alternative forms

(British, dialectal)summat(and variants listed there)

Etymology

Fromsome +‎what.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmwɒt/
(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmwʌt/
Audio(General American): (file)
Hyphenation:some‧what

Adverb

somewhat (notcomparable)

To a limited extent or degree; notcompletely.
The crowd wassomewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
The decision to shave or not is asomewhat personal one.
The searing heat cooledsomewhat as the sun set in the evening.
- 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter II, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
  I had occasion[…] to make asomewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return[…] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting,[…] and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
(UK, meiosis)Very.
- 1942 September and October, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Stock”, inRailway Magazine, page309:
  Two of the coaches are still on the site of the line; one, a first class observation coach carrying the S.R. number 6991, is at Snapper Halt, where it still stands, in fair condition butsomewhat weatherbeaten[…]

Translations

limited extent

Basque:samar (eu)
Bulgarian:ма́лко (bg)(málko),до изве́стна сте́пен(do izvéstna stépen)
Chinese:
Mandarin:多少 (zh),有點 /有点 (zh)(yǒudiǎn),幾分 /几分 (zh),有些 (zh)(yǒuxiē),有所 (zh)(yǒusuǒ)
Czech:poněkud (cs)
Dutch:ietwat (nl),een beetje (nl),enigszins (nl)
Esperanto:iomete
Finnish:jonkin verran (fi),jossain määrin
French:assez (fr),quelque peu (fr)
Galician:dalgún xeito
German:etwas (de),einigermaßen (de)
Hungarian:kicsit (hu),kicsivel,valamivel (hu),valamelyest (hu),kissé (hu),némileg (hu)
Irish:breis,rud beag
Italian:alquanto (it),piuttosto (it)
Japanese:多少 (ja)(たしょう, tashō),やや (ja)(yaya),ある程度(あるていど, aru teido)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish:نەختێک(nextêk),کەمێک(kemêk)
Latin:(prefixed to adjectives or adverbs)sub-,aliquantum
Macedonian:донекаде(donekade)
Maori:hanga(placed before the verb it modifies),āhua (mi)(placed before the word it modifies)
Navajo:tʼáá yédígo
Norwegian:noen lunde
Plautdietsch:eenjemoten
Polish:trochę (pl),nieco (pl),dość (pl),poniekąd (pl),niejako (pl)
Portuguese:um tanto,meio (pt)
Romanian:întrucâtva
Russian:не́сколько (ru)(néskolʹko),отча́сти (ru)(otčásti),в не́которой сте́пени(v nékotoroj stépeni),до не́которой сте́пени(do nékotoroj stépeni),немно́го (ru)(nemnógo)
Scottish Gaelic:leth-char,car (gd)
Serbo-Croatian:ponešto (sh),donekle (sh)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian:tšochu
Spanish:algo (es),un poco,de algún modo,de alguna manera,en cierto modo
Swedish:något (sv)
Turkish:biraz (tr),bir nebze (tr),bir miktar,bir parça (tr)
Ukrainian:де́що(déščo),пе́вною мі́рою(pévnoju míroju),поча́сти(počásty)
Vietnamese:hơi (vi)
Volapük:boso (vo)
Welsh:eithaf (cy),rhywfaint
Yiddish:עפּעס(epes)

See also

slightly

Pronoun

somewhat

(archaic)Something.
- 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:
  Proceeding to the midst he stil did stand,
  As if in minde hesomewhat had to say[…]
- a. 1716, Robert Trail,sermon on the Lord's Prayer
  But this text and theme I am upon, relates tosomewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
- 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC:
  Mr Jones hadsomewhat about him, which, though I think writers are not thoroughly agreed in its name, doth certainly inhabit some human breasts[…]
- 1851 November 14,Herman Melville,Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:
  Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catchsomewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out.
- 1922,E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison,The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape,page 6:
  Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main.

Translations

something—seesomething

Noun

somewhat (countable anduncountable,pluralsomewhats)

More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
- 1682,Nehemiah Grew,The Anatomy of Plants. […],[London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published1682,→OCLC:
  its taste, which is plainly acid, andsomewhat rough
- 1700,[John] Dryden, “Preface”, inFables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
  Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
- 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC:
  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 asomewhat for Mr Jones, the symptoms of which she much sooner understood than poor Sophia had formerly done.
- 1885–1888,Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 558”, inA Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume(please specify the volume),[London]: […] Burton Club […],→OCLC:
  Then they setsomewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave mesomewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship,[…]
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 asomewhat somewhere.
- 1833 (date written),Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, inPoems. […], volume II, London:Edward Moxon, […], published1842,→OCLC,page59:
  Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I amsomewhat. What am I?

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