noun
definition
More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
definition
A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
adverb
definition
(degree) To a limited extent or degree.
example
The crowd was somewhat larger than expected, perhaps due to the good weather.
pronoun
definition
Something.
Examples of somewhat in a Sentence
The female is somewhat smaller.
Jake looked over at her still body, feeling somewhat guilty.
He smiled and looked somewhat relieved.
Towards evening he told his men to ride home by the main road while he went by another way that was somewhat longer.
It seems she considered it somewhat incriminating as she was supposed to be at the pool with some of the other guests at the time.
It somewhat squelched the taste, enough so they were palatable.
This immortal House had been somewhat lowly on the immortal totem pole, evidenced by the fact it was a third the height of most of the others.
I appreciate you helping me, Xander, and for being somewhat decent to my cousin.
During the revolution of 1885 it was partly burned and was rebuilt on a somewhat larger plan.
Quinn returned with a tray, glasses, beer and a bottle of wine, looking somewhat apologetic.
Merrill Cooms was in his early seventies, a widow and the somewhat reclusive owner of a multitude of businesses.
You see, though I trust Aldo Benitez with my life, for good reason, he has endured a somewhat checkered past.
I assigned everyone a ring tone and put their phone numbers in it, he said, looking somewhat proud.
He motioned her in, and she approached somewhat anxiously.
It was her way of saying that while he might have been somewhat more reserved in his response to Claire Quincy, she was admitting the guest isn't always right.
Effie looked somewhat perplexed, but not satisfied.
It was on plain white notepaper, lined and firmly creased, written somewhat shakily with an ink pen, in the dainty script of a woman.
Although she has been somewhat elusive, she will now serve my purpose twofold.
Dean reluctantly explained Fred O'Connor's idea about the newspaper subscription and the fact that a paper had been sent to Scranton to a somewhat mysterious occupant.
There was a reason Sirian remained the embittered but somewhat faithful servant.
You're somewhat protective of women, even if you refuse to form attachments, and you're aggressive with men.
Fore-feet with five toes, all having strong pointed, compressed claws, the second, third and fourth nearly equal, the fifth somewhat and the first considerably shorter.
Thus Nepenthes secures a supply of nitrogenous food from the animal world in a manner somewhat similar to that adopted by the British sundew, butterwort, and other insectivorous plants.
Benedict governed Rome quietly for nearly nine years, a somewhat rare thing in those days.
If the poor remove rich people's incentives to produce economic gain, the rich, who behave somewhat rationally, will stop producing.
If I should attempt to tell how I have desired to spend my life in years past, it would probably surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about it.
As soon as the provocatively gay strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly filled by the domestic serfs--the men on one side and the women on the other--who with beaming faces had come to see their master making merry.
Sofi would chew him out if he gave Bianca to her like she was, and he himself couldn't help but feel somewhat concerned that she'd gone unresponsive.
She didn't doubt it and felt somewhat satisfied her brother at least knew there would be consequences to any stupidity.
By the tone of the letters Rachael wrote to her, the family appeared somewhat estranged from one another.
The location was somewhat isolated from the rest of the path and climbing area.
That seemed to appease her and calmed Connor somewhat.
She added somewhat sheepishly, He's had perfect attendance for all of high school.
Cynthia asked him, somewhat formally, if he would come to dinner the following evening, for what she described as a surprise.
Guiteau, whose mind had no doubt been somewhat influenced by the abuse lavished upon the president by his party opponents; and on the 19th of September 1881, he died at Elberon, New Jersey, whither he had been removed on the 6th.
This is the moment to examine whether there is a more complete polarization in a direction somewhat oblique; and it is found that with 0 positive there is, in fact, a direction of more complete polarization, while with 0 negative the polarization is more imperfect than in the perpendicular direction itself.
It is even somewhat precipitate to assume that a mean value deduced from a single year is fairly representative of average conditions.
Except at Karasjok, where the diurnal changes seem somewhat irregular, the relative amplitude of the 12-hour term is considerably greater in summer than in winter.
She was a courtesan of the superior class, somewhat older than Propertius, but, as it seems, a woman of singular beauty and varied accomplishments.
Throughout the middle ages, moreover, the word alba was somewhat loosely used.
The later English artists have somewhat changed the mode of communicating motion to the slides, by attaching the screws pdrmanently to the micrometer head and tapping each micrometer screw into its slide.
In Roman times Sardinia, relatively somewhat more prosperous than at present, though not perhaps greatly different as regards its products, was especially noted as a grain-producing country.
Queen Christina was not yet twenty, and took a lively if a somewhat whimsical interest in literary and philosophical culture.
It banished the spirits and genii, to which even Kepler had assigned the guardianship of the planetary movements; and, if it supposes the globular particles of the envelope to be the active force in carrying the earth round the sun, we may remember that Newton himself assumed an aether for somewhat similar purposes.
The seeds are roasted and eaten by the natives; the timber, which somewhat resembles walnut, is soft, fine-grained, and takes a good polish, but is not durable.
Care should be taken in planting to select a spot somewhat elevated and well drained.
He carefully establishes the necessity of revelation as a source of knowledge, not merely because it aids us in comprehending in a somewhat better way the truths already furnished by reason, as some of the Arabian philosophers and Maimonides had acknowledged, but because it is the absolute source of our knowledge of the mysteries of the Christian faith; and then he lays down the relations to be observed between reason and revelation, between philosophy and theology.
In connexion with this system of salaries should be mentioned a somewhat reactionary law carried by Pericles in 451, by which an Athenian parentage on both sides was made an express condition of retaining the franchise and with it the right of sitting on paid juries.
The child was small and somewhat deformed, but of great courage and intelligence.
Fleas are wingless insects, with a laterally compressed body, small and indistinctly separated head, and short thick antennae situated in cavities somewhat behind and above the simple eyes, which are always minute and sometimes absent.